Cleopatra & Antony. Scarlett & Rhett. Wendi & Rupert?

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Globe and Mail:

Stand by your man
The smack heard 'round the world is still reverberating today.

Along with the numerous other inquiries into the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, there's sure to be one into how someone got into a British parliamentary hearing with shaving cream and tried to pie Rupert Murdoch, only to be whacked by the News Corp. chief's wife, Wendi Deng.

The able Ms. Deng leapt from her seat, reached across the hearing table, and smacked the man a good one, in what Reuters labelled a "dramatic stand-by-your-man display."

All of which got me researching other tough cookies in history and literature - Cleopatra, Scarlett O'Hara, Hillary Rodham Clinton (though that's another matter entirely) - and Ms. Deng herself.


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Article goes on to say Wendi was a volley ball player, explains her wicked slap. Sort of a stuffed the ball.