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Show —_—_ S J2 heSaltLakeTribune PUZZLES & GAMES SUNDAY,January 31, 1999 Second wives won't play secondfiddle WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE By Richard Thomas PUZZLE ANN LANDERS stank. I, too, am dealing with an ex-wife who calls my hus- band four times a week about some“crisis” with the kids, and I'm fed up with it. Your response didn’t sound like you. Are you on vacation or just eeaddle-brained? — ith Falls, Ore. Deak Klam.: You weren't the only one who didn’t care for my response.“The Second Wives Club”landed on me with a load of complaints. SBeRB ad ry iH if fy Keep reading for more about a response of mine that turned ee to be unexpectedly contro- BYR i 63 66 67 69 70 74 FLRL8SEEES = e 78 79. 80 “— was saying Hare cousins Sutficiently Middle East peninsula Yellowish Clear the scenery Director Welles Cambridge sch. Flowering shrub 82 Span. money 83 Dressler’s Oscar role (1930) 86 Where Zeno trod 88 Come before 108. 111 117 118 Tap problem j BS Dear Ann:Your response to “Slow Boil in California” cl a tue Consent His greatest act End of cash “Open thine eyes —": Keats U9 Internet 5 Mercury's ankle attachments: post 6 Griffith role -ess alternative 7 120 121 Sole 122 Alters 123 R.EM's Nourishment meas. 8 California 15 Perfecta player 16 Uplifted 17 Episcopal residues parson 19 Overwhelm 24 Comics’ Olive 25 First of a Roman 91 93 94 8 98 27 It'sSofCorsica 32 Craps need 101 103 month Windpipe ex-husband. That would be the same as pouring kerosene on a fire. Do you drink or what? Dayton, Ohio: “Slow Boil” should realize sheis notfirst in line. There was a woman before her who gave her hus- other. It doesn’t bother meat all. Being No.4 is just fine when you know you are No. 1 cuts all ties — kids or no kids. LakeBluff, lll: 2 husband’s ex-wife used to call him lot (also during dinner), and it burned meup. To retaliate, haveI felt threatened, and my I left messages for my ex-]hus band to call me — during din. tionship stronger. him, my husband tookthehint, with your husband. Atno time confidence has made our rela- Tortola, British Virgin Islands: Whatever happened to “forsaking all others”? That husband shouldtell his first wife to leave him alone. Her telephonecalls at mealtime are designed to remind everyone that sheis still in the picture, evenif only part time, because ner. After three calls from and his ex-wife’s calls came to a dead halt. Montreal: I’m a 16-year-old whohas learned lot from your column. My parents have been divorced for four years, and the hatred between those two is so thick you can cutit with a knife. I would give any- of their children.“First Wife” sounds like a troublemaker and should be cutoff at the pass. thing if my dad called Mom during dinner and they talked Daytona Beach,Fla.: Thanks for showing no sympathy to “Slow Boil.” I'll bet she band’s first wife used to call bandchildren.“First” has earned access to him whether Wife No.2 likes it or not. Fort Worth, Texas:A second wife should set firm breakup of her husband’s first marriage. Second wives should boundaries regarding her hus- has children, because that’s band’s contact with Wife No. 1. Once divorced, she loses all special privileges, and if she isn’t aware ofthis, she should be reminded. Wife No. 2 unless her husband was nosmall factor in the for an hour. San Jose, Calif: My hus- him two orthree times a week. I was sweet aboutit and never complained. Well, guess what. Hedivorced me and remarried her last year. Sometimes, a expect a boatload of trouble wife can be TOO nice to her when they marry a man who husband’s ex.I'll sign this — Better I Had Been a B—. what they usually get. Salt Lake City: An ex-husband owes his ex-wife zero, whetherornotthere are kids. In mycase, the ex-wife was us- Write to Ann Landers c/o Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611. Indecent Guided ‘Shot follower 95 Down, perhaps Rims Cure rawhide Transverse fort Michael 9 Aggie, 124 Nabokov for one heroine 125 Diarist 10. AGibson 11. Southwest Rorem 1 2 Precede 3.-His skill 4 Twelve months in Tuebi 89 Extended one's membership 90 Pipe wEroa Sunnyside, N.Y.: ‘That ex-wife in California is keeping one foot in the door. You should have told “Slow Boil” to slam it shut, and the sooner the better. Lehigh Valley, Pa.: You screwed up royally when you said it was OK for that former wife to keep in touch with her Boston: My husband has three ex-wives, and they all call him for one thing or an- promenade 12 Crusted Een spirits Beseech 14 O.T. prophet 41 Order to Fido 43 Bitter salad item 113 Qty. 114 4 7. Insulated chests of one who = r (2) SHH1000 SUTTOONG 'L LSIHGGNE LSIGAN '9 UadWVLS WadWVA 'S aIDANG ADGNd > 00Z AND tf ADUVW AOUVHO '% XA. SMOAHD “Tt SUaMSNY Schizophrenic invokes Catch-22 defense @ Since 1996, accused murderer Eric Brown has been ren- BI! 6. Nirvana seeker without clothes (2) It was not only what Alexander SOLVE-IT after 26. ... Bb7 Xie Jun although what he did was impressive enough. In a recent tournament in Pam- to plona, Spain, the 21-year-old Rus- sian played as if wielding a giant ow 4 4t@ scythe. Finishing twofull points cally rare result. Obsérvers, including the press, WHITE WINS THE QUEEN captivated by his freewheel. ) oe ee e-no-prisoners style. Chess forrnalit Leontxo Garcia responded with high praise: “Morozevich imposes his law," he d ¢ g Morozevich WHITE TO PLAY jorwur GID | way) ‘Gpxe JL woonb ay) 807 |YOGPN “1 WAN WOO SWANN 07 WORNOS wrote Aad later, after a crushing 27. waxed enthusiastically: ‘Morozevich formance. Evenbefi fore Pamplona, he had vaulted to fifth place on the World Chess Fede: ration’s rating list. A sig: nificant tes t will comein April shows his enormous talent.” ‘The last year has been an ex traobdinary one for the young star. when he fa ces a number of the ers fm the world as 1998 began, world’s elite grandmasters in the Dos Hermanos Tournamentin Se- Bar¢ly ranked in the top 100 play: Morozevich won three very strong ville, Spain ruary and September. One of them Below is the win against China's Xe Jun. Russian tournaments between Feb. was the formidable Russian chanm pionship. In October, he played a key role in his country's a gold medal World Chess Qlympiad per city was forced to hire a public Morozevich 2, Nf 3.d4 Xie Jun 05 Neé pxdd 4. Nxd4 5, Nxeé 6.05 7, Qed 20, Qd7 21, Nd5 22. Nxf6 23. Nd7ch 24, Bred 25. Bxe7 26, Bg2ch Nf‘6 bxeé Qe? NdS RAB Red? Rd2 Kab Bb4 Ned Bb7 27. Nbéch! Black resigna(a) Note (a): If 27, axb6, then 28. axbéch Naé 39. Ragé mate relations firm to deal with its CHUCK SHEPHERD toos was an angel, on herbutt. der to demonstratethatheis insane andthus a better candidate to be found not guilty. His psy- Unclear on the Concept chiatristis opposed, citing medical ethics prohibiting him from making Brown's illness worse. ® According to a December report in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, U.S. Rep. Dan @ In 1997, four years after being convicted of raping a 15year-old girl, inmate Graylon Bell won $200,000 from a jury against the Indiana Department of Correction for being raped by does this for the same reason ing strength averaged only 29 moves.-an impressive and statisti move win over former World Wom. en's /Champion Xiu Jun, Garcia council member Keith Holliday, explaining in January why the shop (scissors, comb, electric razor) to have his hair cut. Though no one would say for sure, reporters speculated that Burton ters of considerable talent andplay. time.” @ Greensboro, N.C., city enough progress while on medi- Burton of Indiana brings his own utensils to a Capitol barber ahead ofthe field, he suffered not a single loss while winning seven and drawing two games. Three of his four wins against fellow grandmas- were $5,000, but this is the most excitement I've had in a long recently that he had made to his prior psychoticstatein or- BEGINNER'S CORNER culprits: “It may have cost me Hospital in Massachusetts said cation thata trial can be scheduled. However, in December, Brown demanded to be taken off medication so he can return A breakthrough yearfor young Russian Morozevich did but how he did it — NEWS OF THE WEIRD dered incompetent, by paranoid schizophrenia,to standtrial, but officials at Bridgewater State + © 1998 Unted Feature Syndicate. Inc 5. More moist a: canceler (2) Our Lady of the HolyTrinity sits nestledin the hills of South Ogden. The monastery, better known as the Huntsville Monastery or the Trappist monastery, was acquired by the Trappists on July 13, 1948. Originally the monks had chickens, sheep, a dairy and beefherd, and sold honey,butter and bread. Now, most of 1,800 acresis used to to grow hayfor the 200-head beef herd. When the monks originally movedinto the area, these Quonsethuts were used for temporary housing. This photo was provided by Lynn R. Johnson, a former Tribune photographer. 5 2 3. Menagerie for wildebeests (1) 4. Short and fat parakeet(2) ' § Every answeris a rhymin, yyming pair of words (like FAT CAT and DOUBLE TROUBLE), they wilill fit in the letter squares. The number after the definition tells you how many syllabi ies in each word. 1, Pilot Yeager's formal wear (1) 2. Accuse Homer Simpson's wife(1) ROB OSG-oO WORDY GURDY’....:».» Oo his cellmateata Plainfield, Ind., youth facility. In December 1998, Bell and the girl's family reacheda settlementin herlawsuit to get part of the money, (Only $31,500 remained, after lawyers’ fees, of which she will receive $26,500.) (fear of AIDS) that he has stopped ordering soup in restaurants and stopped going to the Republican Party in Law- that colleague and gym regular Barney Frank revealed he is rence, Kan., a conservative faction beat back a challenge from moderates and retained control the House gym aroundthe time gay ® A December Newhouse News Service dispatch reported on the new fascination with tat- tooing among some younger evangelical Christians, who dec- orate themselves contrary to the teachings of the book of Leviti: cus, which in the last millennium was cited as the basis of calling tattooing “a form of deviltry.” (On the other hand, supporters point out, the books of Exodus and Revelation de scribe holy symbols on the bod. tes of believers.) A religious female graduate student in California, interviewed for the article, said that among hertat: @ Ata September meeting of of the party. At thestart of the meeting, when attendees real- ized there was no U.S. flag to which they could offer the traditional pledge of allegiance, the chairmansolved the dilemma by unfurling a roll of 32-cent flag stamps at the front of the room. 0 Wel-Put @ Tampa, Fla., nursing home resident John Yerger, 93, after realizing he had been duped into current water-shortage crisis: “T'll bet you I've been asked 100 times why wejust didn’t make our lakes bigger.” a} Government in Action @ Aninadvertentglitch in the recent juake-proof con- struction at Barnstable (Mass.) High School: The building is so solidly soundproofthat students could not hear ordinary fire alarms, and for the first month of this school year (until the problem was fixed), the school board was forced to hire fire- fighters on overtime to stand guard in the building to alert everyone in case offire, at a total cost of about $1,000 a day. @ Empowered by a Novem- ber referendum in which 73 percent of the country voted against legalizing drugs, Swiss prosecutors announced they would file challenges to current law on marijuana, which bans its sale only as a “narcotic.” Over thelast three years, sever- al hemp shops have opened, selling dried marijuana as an herbal room freshener (with names like “Juicy Fruit” and “Lemon Skunk") and labeled “not for consumption.” ® A December Wall Street Journal report described the problems of auto manufacturers forced to crash-test their paying a $5,000 fee to collect his alleged $1 million winnings in a Canadian lottery and then coop- cars using juins not only of tee-dictated ‘isae erating with authorities in an at prescribed in minute detail by tempt (unsuccessfy)) tosting the and weight but wearing clothing regulation, _ ‘ |