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...choose between them. Gloria, who had instigated the divorce because she realized she was gay, kept her old friends, like Anita, but nearly all the Orthodox Jewish couple's married friends sided with her husband. Peter, who told his ex-wife that of the friends he lost in the split, he missed Anita most, did not return Anita's calls...
While there are no rules ordaining the divvying up of friends after a split, in many cases it works like an unspoken prenuptial agreement. That is, you take those friends you brought to the marriage with you when you go. You also take the friends you use more often--the ones you work with or, if you're the custodial parent, the friends with kids. Often a sort of morality clause kicks in. People feel they should side with the spouse they perceive to have been wronged. The adulterer has a new love; the betrayed spouse gets the old friends...
...abandonment. "I am good friends with exactly two of the couples that Harry and I were friends with," says Beth Hartman, 41, who called an end to her marriage in 1996 after five years. She was stunned by how quickly she was dropped from her social circle after the split. Her ex-husband, she says, fared no better. "I was almost more confused at the loss of all these friendships than I was at the end of my marriage," says Hartman, who is sensitive enough about the issue that she asked that we not use her real name. Indeed, losing...
...Abidjan, the commercial capital, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan cities. For many years even the term refugee was considered dirty because, in the words of founding President Félix Houphou?t-Boigny, citizens of neighboring African countries should be welcomed as "brothers." Not anymore. Today Ivorian society is split along ethnic lines and teeters on the edge of civil war. Three weeks ago, a group of disgruntled soldiers mutinied after being demobilized. The revolt quickly turned to open conflict between troops loyal to the government of Laurent Gbagbo - who came to power two years ago in flawed elections from...
Harvard’s second game of the weekend is its second Ivy matchup. The Crimson travels to Philadelphia on Saturday to face off against Penn (5-4, 1-0), one of three teams that split last year’s Ivy title. The Quakers’ victory over Harvard last year was their first in scholl history...