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...limited cases, such as abusive relationships, physical separation of spouses is acceptable and inevitable. (Even the Catholic Church, the unyielding defender of marriage, accepts this unfortunate reality.) But at least a prohibition on divorce sends the strong message that such separation should only be turned to as a last resort, not as a weakened substitute for divorce. While some marriages may still break up, with partners living apart but not formally divorced, at least the Irish state was able to say that it did everything in its power to preserve marriage as an institution...
...fact that an Israeli right-wing extremist shot Rabin further underlines the fact that not only Arabs but also Israelis realize that the time for action has come and therefore, in extreme cases, resort to violence to cover their panic and fear of a peace they never believed could actually exist. For the first time. Arabs and Jews alike are "internalizing" the peace process by evaluating it not in terms of symbolic significance but in terms of economic, social, and political benefits. The assassination of Sadat halted the peace process for over a decade: the assassination of Rabin just might...
Given its many Byzantine rules, it's not surprising that the VA has been the health-care provider of last resort for many vets, who turn first to employee benefits, Medicare or Medicaid. But according to estimates announced last week by the VA and the Department of Health and Human Services, as many as 172,000 veterans could lose their Medicaid coverage in 2002. At the same time, increasing premiums and copayments for Medicare could spur an additional 400,000 veterans to head to VA medical centers. The numbers are debatable, but the basic dynamic is not: all three systems...
...Cubist, and the abstraction of his motifs goes on apace, though never at the expense of their sensuousness. His seascapes, mostly distilled from the coastal resort of Scheveningen, where a pier stuck out into the flat northern sea from the dunes, are of extraordinary beauty. The movement of waves and light is reduced to the twinkling of black bars and crosses, shifts and erasures, within an oval field of view. In the end, this breaking and reassembly of a motif go so far that only the barest clues to its identity remain--whether it is a tree, a seascape...
...large earthquake rocked the resort-studded Pacific coast of Mexico, killing at least 51 people, flattening one big hotel and damaging hundreds of homes. The temblor, which measured 7.5 on the Richter scale, was felt as far as 330 miles away in Mexico City, where the 63-story headquarters of the state oil monopoly swayed sickeningly...