G.O.P. Aide Is Charged In Violent Family Fight.

By all appearances, John Michael Farren and his wife, Mary Margaret Farren, had the life many can only dream about: a $4 million house in an affluent Connecticut suburb; two daughters; and high-powered legal careers, hers in the energy practice of Skadden, Arps, and his as a top aide in three Republican administrations along with a stint as general counsel of Xerox. But that facade shattered this week, shortly after Mrs. Farren had her husband served with divorce papers on Monday. By Thursday, their stately house in New Canaan had become a bloody crime scene, Mrs. Farren was hospitalized with a broken jaw, nose and other injuries, and Mr. Farren had been charged in Norwalk Superior Court with attempted murder. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]