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...vindictive, and it allows lawyers to make a lot of money." If unhappily married people want out, they will find a way to get out. During the days when fault was enforced, notes DePaul University law professor Jane Rutherford ominously, "there were two things that increased--desertion rates and spousal homicide rates...
...oldest spousal joke in the book: if he's weird, he must be from your side of the family. But in the Unabomber case it was eerily prescient. It was in fact DAVID KACZYNSKI's wife LINDA PATRIK who first jokingly suggested that his brother Ted might be the Unabomber. In an interview the no longer media-shy Kaczynski family gave 60 Minutes' MIKE WALLACE and LESLEY STAHL, Patrik says the more she read about the Unabomber, the more she wanted David to look at his manifesto. "My motive was primarily to put Linda's mind at ease," says Kaczynski...
...simple and familiar. Just as Clinton's 1996 State of the Union speech was a blueprint for six months' worth of Executive actions--each one ensuring press attention--so Clinton's acceptance speech this week will lay out some 30 policies (like taking handguns away from men convicted of spousal abuse) to be rolled out between now and November. Morris believes Clinton will win, but he also thinks a backlash will follow again and that 1998 will be another disastrous year for Democrats...
...necessity of thinking about spousal careers during the appointment process is a significant change from the past...
...fair to say that there's a crisis of family in America. It's impossible to draw any other conclusion from the divorce rates, out-of-wedlock birth statistics and juvenile and spousal abuse cases. This crisis is feeding anxiety about the future of the nation...