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John Heinz had a knack for applying the pointed questioning style that he honed in Senate hearing rooms to his home life. He would grill his wife about the food she was cooking, his three boys about school, Social Security, whatever came up at the dinner table.

I wondered what the source of this fact is. Could it possibly be the nutty Teresa herself?

(Christopher Heinz, now 29, declined to comment.)

Oh, but I wish he would. Let's hope he's a pubbie with a lot to say if Kerry gets the nomination.

She saw a psychiatrist who prescribed Prozac, one pill a day.

Lovely, a first lady on Prozac. I thought we dodged that bullet with Tipper.

She began devoting much of her time, energy and money to issues that John Heinz held dear in the Senate.

Ha! I bet John Heinz would have been a tax-cut advocate.

able to spin unscripted policy yarns on the environment,

You know, it's invariable that a stupid and/or rich liberal is an "environmentalist". It's the most gutless issue to have as a cause.

Kerry had been a prodigious but reluctant dater,. . . He became a "Senate hermit."

Oh, yeah, he was practically a monk. Where does the WP get these writers anyway?

Several of Heinz's intimates have died in crashes: Her husband, her sister (at 19), her grandmother and godfather.

WHAT?!? I don't know about this. This is too weird. Black Widow, anyone?