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...resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek and Copper Mountain. They're listening to instructor Gustavo Heredia explain bail bonds, warrants and plea bargains. Many in the crowd are recent arrivals from Mexico. None can speak English. And all are in trouble for such offenses as drunk driving, driving without insurance, spousal abuse and fighting. Four-fifths of them are in the U.S. illegally, but deportation is no big worry in the Colorado resort country, where unemployment has been running under 2%. Here, Latinos hold about half of the low-wage jobs--dishwashers, chambermaids and gardeners--that are essential to the tourist...
...palaces, bejeweled maharajas, turbaned men leading camels across the desert. The condition of women there is often wretched. There are just 910 women for every 1,000 men, a result of female feticide and infanticide as well as sheer neglect and malnutrition--and barely 20% of them are literate. Spousal abuse, child marriage and mistreatment of daughters are all common. "This is a movement to strengthen the democracy," Srivastava says of her protests. "It is a long journey, but it is bright...
...bill would extend spousal rights to areas covered by state law--inheritance, medical decisions, insurance coverage, child custody and family-leave benefits. To be eligible, gay couples would have to obtain a license from the town clerk and have their union certified by a justice of the peace, judge or clergy member. Those that split up would have to file for dissolution...
...that the police had to be called in to mediate several times. On one occasion, says Levelle, "Maher knocked me down, started hitting me with his forearm and told me he would get a gun and kill me." Maher's first wife Marla, who divorced him in 1991, alleging spousal abuse and drug use, told friends he had threatened to kill her and liked to play Russian roulette...
Sonia, however, is no pioneer of spousal succession. Corazon Aquino and Violeta Chamorro, both widows of assassinated opposition leaders, became Presidents, respectively, of the Philippines and Nicaragua. They did not, however, get there by default. They ascended by courageously making themselves the rallying point of a revolution. The one who did ascend for no other discernible reason than having shared the great one's bed is one Mrs. Peron of Argentina. Not Evita, who became a saint after her death but never actually ruled--no, the sorriest modern case of rule by consort is Peron's third wife, Isabel...