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CORRECTION APPENDED Cambridge businesses may soon be widening their doors and converting small steps to smooth ramps following the adoption of a new city ordinance.
Gracia Sánchez doesn't stray far from her father's thinking, but says the changes in Spain since her childhood are "mostly for the better." As a devout Catholic, however, she opposes the Zapatero revolution. "We've gone a step farther than was requested," she says. "Gay marriage...
Carrasco represents a new twist on what family now means in this once rigidly traditional Catholic land. But gay marriage and adoption rights are only the most recent and controversial changes in a nation that has undergone an epochal shift since sloughing off the stifling certainties of dictatorship a mere...
Most attention, however, has gone to the Zapatero government's expansion of gay rights. Spain had no national provisions for same-sex couples' rights until 2005, when it became only the third country in the world (after the Netherlands and Belgium) to allow gay marriages, and the first to give...
Unsurprisingly, having endured the Rutelli campaign, even museums that may have once played fast and loose have tightened their practices. But curators and museum directors complain that cultural-property laws prevent virtually anything from being exported lawfully, guaranteeing a continued black market even if museums don't take part in...