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We all know Jackie Kennedy as the glamorously rail-thin first lady and jet-setting wife of mogul Aristotle Onassis. She apparently worked hard to keep her frame slender enough so that her signature 1960s Oleg Cassini sheaths and her 1970s career woman slacks easily draped off her frame, almost as if she were a human coat hanger. That’s according to a new book by Kathy McKeon, her former assistant and children’s nanny, who said that Jackie at one point in her life employed a very strict diet to maintain her physique. ...
PALO ALTO — The fog was just lifting at Capitola beach one morning this July when Christine Blasey Ford confided in two friends. She had written her congresswoman and anonymously tipped off the Washington Post with her explosive story, claiming Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school. But now she was worried that her name would come out. She was bracing for an avalanche of attacks and searching her memory for anyone, anything, that could validate her sto...