Word: borisova
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...with Old Country attractions--the changing of the presidential guard, streets made from yellow bricks gifted by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I--but the city of 1.2 million is compact enough for visitors to venture to locales off the beaten track, like the communist monument turned skate park in Borisova Gradina and the Ladies' Market, where average-income Sofians do their shopping. The marketplace of storefronts and open-air kiosks sells everything from clementines to wallpaper to negligees to banitsa, a flaky pastry stuffed with the feta-like "white cheese" used in many Bulgarian dishes. One kiosk sells mulled wine...
...People's Court in northern Moscow. The judge, a petite brunet in a striped blouse and skirt, enters the room. Two citizen-jurists called "people's assessors," an elderly man and a young woman, follow her to the high-backed chairs behind the bench. On the docket: Borisova vs. Borisov, a divorce case...
...judge begins by questioning Mrs. Borisova, who tells about how her husband has been unfaithful and even ran off with another woman during her pregnancy. That ended all trust between them...
After eliciting a few more details-one point of contention has been Mrs. Borisova's dinners of potatoes or kasha-the judge turns to the husband. He seems as resentful of his wife's unforgiving attitude as she is of his infidelity. Eventually, the judge and the assessors reach their decision: no divorce, for now. A final judgment will be postponed until August in hopes that the Borisovs can settle their differences by then...
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