But it's not about me. And whenever it's appropriate, of course, we are together. On handling the hours: Her husband, she says, has a remarkable ability to catch a minute nap. They always have a humidifier in their room because hotels are so dry — she thinks that helps them sleep well.
So does the fact that he doesn't watch the news or read polls, she says. But she follows everything and will sneak a peek at the news if he's in another room. As well, she has just discovered Twitter — she doesn't tweet but she follows it to find out what is going on. Biggest surprise: "The weather," she laughs. It has been cold — and she packed for spring. But as her husband has said in rallies and town halls, the Liberal spring is coming.
She can feel it. Follow Jane Taber on Twitter: janetaber1 Opens in a new window. Below please find CEU's translation of the article. He received his history degree in Toronto and then his PhD at Harvard. He has taught in Toronto and at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. He is considered an international expert in issues of democracy, human rights, and governance.
He is also known as an award-winning writer, television personality and politician. His two children from his first marriage are already adults: his son is a gardener in Toronto, his daughter works as a theater production assistant in England. At the beginning of the 90s, during his more than year stay in England, he met his second wife, Zsuzsanna M. Zsohar, who is also a historian and who was then writing about one of his books for the BBC. A special attraction of the job was that due to the redevelopment project, the university campus will be opened to the Budapest community during my leadership.
We want to make this year old, Hungarian and American university open to the Budapest community. By this I mean the shoemaker who works two blocks away and the people in the neighborhood are welcome to come in for a coffee. In part because the leader himself is always ensuring she is not far off.
Whether it's boarding an elevator after a policy meeting or returning to the bus following a lunch stop at a local Italian restaurant, he seemed to constantly be asking "where is my wife?
If the summer tour goes down as the event that gave Ignatieff's political career it's first real boost, there will be no doubt Zsohar's role will be prominently remembered as one of the reasons why. Ignatieff freely acknowledges what his coping mechanism is for dealing with the ups and downs of political life.
Those who work for him will tell you the sometimes-brooding and moody Ignatieff is infinitely easier to work with when Zsohar is around. Their relationship was fodder for the British tabloids because Ignatieff, a relatively well-known journalist and television host, left his wife for Zsohar in after nearly two decades of marriage. In they moved to Cambridge, Mass. In , when Ignatieff threw his hat into federal politics, the couple moved to Toronto. In , she followed him to Ottawa, when he replaced Stephane Dion as Liberal leader.
They now live in Stornoway, the official residence of the leader of the opposition in Ottawa's tony Rockcliffe Park neighbourhood. It's a night-and-day existence from the small, two-bedroom apartments they shared for the first decade of their relationship. Ignatieff jokes that he sometimes wanders around the house calling out "where are you? For the first time they've been able to get cats -- a Burmese pair known as Eric and Mimi -- which they both say are a huge stress reliever.
Harper says. I don't think there is a marketer in this country who could touch her. She has something that is unfortunately lacking in marketing here, and that's imagination. She's unbelievably supportive in the extent to which she has submerged her professional life into his. She has obvious charm, imagination and incredible adaptability, a gift not many have. He's right about the charm. Spending time with Zsohar is fun. She weaves a spell in the Stornoway sunroom she's chosen for her meeting with the Toronto Star — her first sit-down interview — telling stories, pulling out photographs, sharing insights and punctuating comments with loud bursts of distinctive laughter.
The lovely youn g thing was a creation of the pop press, and "knockout" doesn't spring to mind today. She was, though. A photograph of Zsohar at 18 shows a dark-haired Hungarian beauty and, later, at a London book-signing for client Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, she's the blond fashionista with a chic bob, polished makeup and perfect pearls. Yet Zsohar remains a beautiful woman.
She's not photogenic but, in person, she hypnotizes. Zsohar is slight with good bones and dresses simply, usually monochromatically, keeping her shoulder-length hair brownish-blonde and subtly streaked. Her glasses are stylish, pricey, but no-nonsense. Her only fashion conceit is the signature red manicure that draws attention to pale skin and long, tapering fingers.
Zsohar has had a wonderful, adventurous, peripatetic life, albeit laced with sorrow, and been with to use her word and emphasis fabulous men. More later. She speaks with a native Hungarian accent, tinged with thin Dutch vowels and rounded, upper-class English tones. Clearly, she's smart and curious. She devours books, mainly novels and poetry, and has recently worked her way through "the big stars of Canadian literary life" — Ondaatje, Richler, Atwood, Martel — and intends to read more Canadian fiction.
It's like shorthand talking books with her, she knows them so well. Perhaps most important, politically speaking, Zsohar knows how to listen. She's in sync with him; they seem to be emotionally connected and intellectually connected. At public events, she scopes the crowd, whispers in his ear, connects with loners and carries her share of meet-and-greet duties.
Later, under the fluorescent glare of airline terminals, she holds his hand and leans into his protective arm; on planes, they snuggle. She's undoubtedly his most trusted and astute adviser. Toronto friend John Polanyi, fellow Hungarian and Nobel Laureate in chemistry, describes "really quite a private person who likes to stay just outside of range, but not so far outside she can't zip in and help her husband. She keeps his feet on the ground. Ignatieff is conscious of his paternal Russian roots, says Polanyi, and mostly Russians have been invading Hungary.
She is a very strong person. A veteran of Liberal backrooms who prefers anonymity says she's the best political spouse he's seen, ever. She views it as their career. To say she will be an asset on the campaign trail is an understatement. Certainly, Zsohar is an unabashed fan of her husband — she considers him tremendously talented, a gifted writer — even if she mentions he could be tidier, watch sports less and should remember her name day.
I think he's good and he thinks I'm good too. I hope
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