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When Pilar Jiménez wed in 1961, she knew her marriage would last. "Back then, no one separated," says the 71-year-old Salamanca resident. "Marriage was for life." Indeed, her union - like most that took place in the strongly Catholic environment of Franco's Spain - endured, lasting until her husband's death two years ago. But if her marriage was typical of its era, so too are those of her 10 children: five of them are now divorced...
...Divorce may be a sin, but if the marriage is hell, why would you stay?" asks Jiménez's son César Borrego, a 35-year-old pilot who divorced his wife in 2006 after eight years of marriage. It was a contentious divorce - the couple have two children and César sued for shared custody - but less difficult in some ways than that of his older brother Kiko, a military flight mechanic who split up with his wife in 1992 after only three months of marriage. "Because of the law then we had to wait until...
...Jiménez, there is no doubt that some old values have been lost. In the past, she says, "family was always the most important thing. It would never have entered my mind to separate." Still, thanks to her children, she's become more accustomed to the idea of divorce. "They're adults," she says. "If two people are unhappy, why should they have to suffer...
...apology, claiming a victory for the high road. Fine. But McCain might also know that if middle names become fair game, John Sidney McCain III has his own liabilities. Recently, it has been the unmanly middle names that have caused their owners the most political trouble. In 2006, Jim Henry Webb hammered home the fact that his Virginia Senate opponent was actually George Felix Allen - a middle name that conjured up images of Felix Unger, or perhaps the real life Prince Felix of Luxemburg, either one a far cry from the tobacco-chewing good ole boy Allen styled himself...
...recent alums were in attendance—and they were, as I spotted last year’s seniors Jim Goffredo and Brian Darcy in the stands—they know a bit about the losing streaks...