Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carolyn Staley, who lived next door to the Clintons when she and Bill were in high school, says that as a preacher's kid, she never even knew about the town's reputation as sin city. Did the Clintons know? I ask her. "Oh, yes, they were more sophisticated, more...
Hot Springs, unlike Hope, was a place where such problems could be kept secret. Billy's friends, teachers, counselors and pastors never knew what violence he faced when he went home. Staley lived next door when the Clintons' brief (three-month) divorce was still in effect, and did not realize...
This ought to guarantee a livelihood to untold numbers of lawyers: Thomas Kirk, an Orlando circuit-court judge, says an 11-year-old boy can sue to "divorce" his parents. Kirk ruled that "Gregory K." can seek to sever all legal ties with his natural parents so that he can...
Not even long-established multiethnic states seem to be immune from breakup. For 74 years Czechoslovakia achieved a mostly peaceful accommodation between Slovaks and Czechs. As recently as 1989 they were solidly united in the "velvet revolution" against communist rule. But now, driven by discontent with their economic lag, the...
Upon returning to Ireland she married fellow lawyer Nicholas Robinson, the son of a Protestant banker and a former political cartoonist for the Irish Times. She took on cases of sexual and employment disadvantage to women. She fought for legalizing birth control and divorce (or "the divorce," as it is...