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...issue, at least, appears to be resolved: Carrasco says he and Javier Dorca, his boyfriend of eight years, plan to tie the knot next year under Spain's landmark 2005 gay-marriage legislation. "Javier has always wanted to get married," says the Barcelona hairdresser, who split up with his wife 10 years ago after finally acknowledging - to himself and others - that he's gay. "Emotionally I don't need marriage. But it's my right, so I will exercise...
...Pilar's sons, who was divorced from 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, who split from his wife in 1992 after three months of marriage. "Because of the law then, we had to wait until we had been married a year before we could even file for separation, and we had to wait another year until we could file for divorce," says Kiko...
...Harvard’s top two flights had to work a bit harder to maintain the shutout. After dropping her first set, 5-9, freshman Mashruwala rallied to win the next three games, 9-6, 9-2, 9-3 to win in four sets. Freshman No. 1 June Tiong split the first two sets but won the final two in convincing fashion to secure a 9-3, 6-9, 9-3, 9-5 victory over Lily Lorentzen of Stanford. “I felt June really came of age and played a great match,” Bajwa said. TRINITY...
...attraction. With the aid of film-biz hindsight, we can realize what Barry L. Levy, the film's writer, and its director, Pete Travis, figured out about the assassination genre: (1) that it can easily be fit into a standard action scenario and (2) that the plot can be split six or eight ways, into as many points of view. Each witness to the assassination provides important fragments of the information needed for the viewer to figure out whodunit and whether the perps will get away with their atrocity...
...Consider Quebec: Separatists north of the border still agitate for a split from Canada, evidently believing that that now would be a great time to establish a Little France right next door to the United States, since Americans always react so happily to all things French - and what better tonic for a struggling global economy than another country that spends three-quarters of its work week threatening to go on strike and the remaining part walking off the job in a huff...