We were sad to learn that Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek and his wife Karen are divorcing after 11 years of marriage.

Unlike some baseball players we could name (cough A-Rod cough), we never heard about ‘Tek stepping out with strippers or partying until the wee hours.

Karen Varitek also seemed happy. She told Boston magazine in 2005 that while her life as a baseball wife had its challenges, she was content.

“We can hardly complain,� says Varitek. “We can’t complain about our life. We don’t have a bad life. It’s just a different life.� READ MORE

In the October, 2004 issue of Boston magazine, Katherine Ozment profiled Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who had graduated from Brandeis and M.I.T., and lived in Boston with her husband, a physician at Brigham and Women’s. But the FBI suspected she was an Al-Qaeda operative. On Monday, Siddiqui was charged with “trying to kill American soldiers and FBI agents in a police station in Afghanistan.” She was transferred to New York and is to be arraigned today in U.S. district court.

The following passage is from Ozment’s story:

To those who knew her, Aafia Siddiqui was a kind, quiet woman living the normal life of a Pakistani expat in Boston. To the FBI, which displayed her photograph at that press conference in May, she was a suspected terrorist with ties to a chief mastermind of 9/11 — and the knowledge, skills, and intention to continue Al Qaeda’s terror war in the United States and abroad. Could one woman embody such diametrically opposed identities? Who is the real Aafia Siddiqui? And where has she gone?

Read the rest of the story here.

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