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...What makes this 40-year-old different from millions of other hard-working Spanish fathers is that his partner is a man. One 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...
...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...
...rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized divorce in 1981, but a recent reform allowing couples to accelerate the divorce process has caused those numbers to skyrocket. Spain now has one divorce for every 2.3 marriages - an increase of 74% in the past two years alone...
...promoting divorce, just making it more accessible." Like him, sociologist Inés Alberdi sees little grounds for concern. "The number of divorces may have climbed, but the number of separations has decreased by almost the same amount," she says. "Before, when it came to divorce, Spain had very strange practices. Now we're more like other countries in Europe...
...movie begins in a TV-news remote trailer in Salamanca, Spain, where the hassled, blinkered executive producer (Sigourney Weaver) is trying to steer live coverage of a peace summit toward bland bromides and away from the anti-U.S. demonstrations on the periphery of the event. Once the assassins' shots hit their human target and a large bomb disperses the crowd, the movie flashes back 23 mins. and starts all over again, in be-kind-rewind fashion, and we get the perspectives of President Ashton (William Hurt), two of his Secret Service bodyguards (Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American...