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The only bone I'd pick at in the Times' piece was the "hold her own" comment--that was in the reporters' words, not a quote from a source. That does smack a bit of "little lady syndrome".
Otherwise, particularly the closing paragraph, tries to get at the less-public person of the two behind the Gates Foundation, and seems to do so fairly well. Smart, sure. You don't rise up the ladder at Microsoft without a decent amount of gray matter. And Gates, to his credit, doesn't strike me as someone who'd be content with a Barbie for a wife. Like his father and his mentor Warren Buffett, Gates seems to value true partnership of ideals and ideas as part of marriage. The Times article seems to get at that. (Now if only they'd tried to do so with their recent Clinton marriage article instead of turning it into a tabloid side bar.)
