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On one of his last campaign trips as a "welcome guest", we see John Kerry and the lovely Teresa enjoying themselves in New Hampshire.....

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, sparked a genuine controversy this week, describing First Lady Laura Bush as less qualified to be a president's wife because she had never held a "real job" as an adult. The ensuing controversy raised a host of issues, ranging from Teresa Heinz Kerry's worldview to the role of mothers and the value of motherhood. The controversy emerged from a seemingly innocuous set of interviews in USA Today. With Election Day looming near on the horizon, the paper published a series of articles on the role of the first...

OTTSVILLE, Pa. -- Teresa Heinz Kerry once hinted at tensions with her first-born son, a 37-year-old blacksmith who seeks an anonymous life with his wife and child in rural Pennsylvania..........Heinz Kerry's eldest son lives with his physician wife, Kristann, on a wooded 163-acre farm near Philadelphia, refusing all inquiries about Kerry's campaign, the Heinz foundation, or his own work and ambitions. He operates a small Buddhist high school for troubled teens nearby, and makes reproduction ironwork in a studio on his secluded property, land he has conserved so it can never be developed. On a much larger scale, his mother...

We don't know if this has anything to do with the controversy about Sen. John Kerry's refusal to release the records from his 1988 divorce, but his wife is pining for the good old days of her late husband. 'My Husband'Recalling the death of Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., in a plane crash in 1991, multimillionaire heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry said yesterday in Des Moines, Iowa: "It was a very sad day when that happened. I'd rather have my husband alive than that money."

Teresa Heinz Kerry, through a network of investments in blue-chip corporations, venture capital funds and municipal bonds, controls a family fortune worth an estimated $1 billion, an examination of public records shows. The $1-billion figure is double the estimates of her wealth that are widely cited in news stories about her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. The couple would rank as the wealthiest to occupy the White House, far surpassing such storied presidential fortunes as the Kennedys'. Their assets are so vast and far-reaching that they mirror the U.S. economy, and will likely...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, the millionaire philanthropist who aspires to be First Lady, campaigned for her husband in Miami on Tuesday, her penchant for candor drawing as many television cameras as a potential presidential candidate. It was the solo Miami debut of the woman strategists suggest is John Kerry's best weapon in the fight to woo working women, and the unscripted Heinz Kerry didn't disappoint, lauding her husband's commitment to healthcare for all while musing about the right approach to cracking down on Fidel Castro. ''This is just off the top of my head,'' she said at one point as she...