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This was true for Mario Grigorov, 39, whose wife Rosalind left him after five years. English was Rosalind's native tongue, so sometimes she had acted as a social intermediary for Mario, who was born in Bulgaria. After the split, "my wife's college friends became her support group, and I was left with no friends," he says. Most of the couple's joint friends stayed away, so Mario had to start over: "My first new friends were really dysfunctional; none of us had any idea how to be in a relationship," he says. But after he remarried, some...
...issue of who is really to blame for the split is also an engine in battles for the friends. "It is probably around divorce that spin control was developed," says Belove. "The players feel they need the story to be told a certain way, and they need people to buy their version of the story." When friends favor one spouse over the other, it is read as belief in that spouse's side of the story. The one with the most friends can believe he or she is less to blame for the marriage's failure...
...Hatred is a powerful motivator. Until the clerics made common cause against America, the six hard-line party leaders were rivals. They stormed each other's mosques and split hairs over ideological disputes dating back to Islam's early days. Their differences were stark: some worship at the tombs of local Sufi saints; others dismiss that practice as blasphemy. Most of the parties want their women veiled from head to toe, although more liberal groups argue that it ought to be the woman's choice. The personalities of the parties' leaders have also clashed. Qazi Hussain Ahmed from the Jamaat...
...absolutely no idea you could request an alternate test center," he said, "but in any case there is no way I could have paid that much money, unless I could have split the fee with other students...
...playing quarterback is the toughest thing to do in all of team sports? You’re trying to split hairs while men weighing upwards of 300 pounds are bearing down...