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Marion Crossman doesn't like it when her ex-husband wanders through her house on changeover days looking for one of his children - and her new husband likes it even less. But for the greater good she bites her tongue. "They are his daughters and I have to be loyal to him in front of them," says Crossman, 45, a high-school teacher in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney...
...feeling is that people go to court when they've done something wrong," says Crossman, adding she never considered trying to restrict her ex-husband to weekends-and-holidays-only access. "Particularly as I left him, I couldn't see why he should miss out on seeing his kids. And it wouldn't have been fair on our daughters (now 17 and 14) to deprive them of him just because their parents' relationship broke down...
...even their own child. As Bryant said in a recent speech, couples who appear in her court tend to carry "with them not just baggage, but an entire caravan of family values, views and expectations." For every mother who, filled with spite, does all she can to limit her ex-husband's time with his children, there's a father who doesn't show up when he should or defaults on child support. Maybe he's stopped caring - or never did; maybe he finds it too distressing or insulting to be an occasional father. The Kanwal dads seem like...
...earliest—and most arousing—displays of commendable public outcry came far from Cambridge. Last December, a group of students followed Tom Hayden—the ultra-liberal ex-husband of Jane Fonda—to Miami on a trip funded by the Institute of Politics (IOP). The ostensible aims of the excursion were to observe a protest against the Fair Trade Agreement of the Americas and to “collect data.” However, the group’s innocuous observation quickly turned into active participation—and, unfortunately, involuntary detention...
...they paraded to the stage in the Grand Palais to speak their thanks, usually in English, to the jury and its Asiaphile president, Quentin Tarantino. Maggie Cheung accepted the Best Actress scroll with her usual cool poise, while her director and ex-husband Olivier Assayas squirmed in his seat. The Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul solemnly dedicated his Prix du Jury (third place) for Tropical Malady to his recently deceased father. And so it went. Four of the eight award winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival were from East Asia. By the end of the ceremony the only surprise...