Word: marts
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...Vermont is blue heaven, home of Ben and Jerry and Phish, the first state with civil unions for gays, the last state with a Wal-Mart and the only state that President Bush has somehow neglected to visit. (Naylor likes to say that Bush is the unofficial membership director for his secession movement.) One Vermont Senator, Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders, is an avowed socialist; the other, Pat Leahy, is a liberal Democrat perhaps best known for being told by the Vice President on the Senate floor to go "f--k yourself." When Manhattan-born Howard Dean served as governor...
...support. Indeed, after spending centuries gazing lovingly across the Mediterranean to its stronghold on the Iberian peninsula, the Holy See now views Spain as a sad example of how the West was lost to the forces of secular humanism. Such doctrinal concerns don't exist for Rocío Martínez-Sampere and Jordi Domenech, who were born the year before Franco's death. For both of them, marriage is out of the question and careers are important. But, at 33, they are expecting their second son this spring. Becoming parents has been a balancing act for the couple...
...surprisingly, the young couple supports the new laws that recognize a rainbow of different family models. But they depend too on the traditional boon of having two grandmothers nearby, who do regular babysitting duties. "The extended family still exists," says Martínez-Sampere. "And it works." Whichever candidate wins next week will similarly have to reconcile Spain's deep family roots with its modern ambition to have...
...pushing against an open door; both the Qatar tournament organizers and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) agreed that she could compete. "They all welcomed me warmly," she told TIME at the end of a grueling practice session in Tel Aviv with her part-time coach, Conchita Mart ínez, a 1994 Wimbledon champion. Tennis officials assured the young Israeli that she would be given round-the-clock security in Qatar, and one member of her entourage was told that Peer would be treated "like the Emir's wife...
Gift-Card Crisis The canaries in the coal mine of the next recession may well be gift cards. Usually they provide a post-Christmas bounce for stores, but this year, say big retailers like Wal-Mart, cash-crunched consumers are either saving their holiday gift cards or spending them on necessities like toiletries and school supplies instead of luxuries like iPods and DVDs...