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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 endured until her husband's death two years ago. But if her marriage was typical of its era, so too are those of her ten children - five of whom are now divorced. That puts her family roughly at Spain's national average these days...
...Pilar Jiménez, there is no doubt that some old values have been lost. "Before, family was always the most important thing," she says. "It would never have entered in my mind to separate." Still, she admits that, 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...
Feldstein said yesterday that he will continue as “an active NBER researcher” and that he is “delighted with the choice of Jim Poterba as my successor...
...Jim is an important presence internationally for so many different parts of economics,” Laibson said. “It’s impossible to have been an economist during the past two decades and to have not gotten inspiration from his comments at conferences, or from his papers even when he’s not actually in the room...
...whether it’s safe to carry a handgun on the streets, the umbrella menace remains unspoken in the halls of our out-of-touch government. In fact, members of Congress may be seen regularly strolling through security brashly waving their umbrellas. Last March, an aide to Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) provoked an uproar when he accidentally tried to bring a pistol into a Senate office building. Sadly, the national media has taken a far more tepid interest in the scores of umbrellas that enter the building each...