When The Empire Strikes Back touched down like a nuke in 1980, Boba Fett was just another bounty hunter with little screen time in the Star Wars universe. But the icy killer still managed to bend that universe to his will in the second Star Wars film trilogy and television’s animated...

Of the recent political scandals involving infidelity — John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer, James McGreevy — one stands out, not for what the politician did, but for what his wife did not do. Jenny Sanford, wife of Gov. Mark Sanford, did not stand by her man in the cameras’ glare....