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...unlucky pioneers are higher-income men (they pay more during their working years) who have never married (so they won't get the additional 50% in spousal payments that can go to married male retirees). A small category, but prophetic. They will be the first to run up against the personal deficit in store for many younger workers, who pay much higher rates of Social Security tax than their parents' generation. If the system let earlier retirees make out like bandits, for everyone who follows it's hands...
...licenses, modeled after gun laws. "Both kinds of licenses," explains historian Glenda Riley, author of Divorce: An American Tradition, "create a volatile situation." And just last week, a group of mostly female state lawmakers in Washington introduced a bill that would require marriage licenses to come with warnings about spousal abuse. "I would say, simply, 'Beware. Stop, look, listen and be cautious,' " said state senator Margarita Prentice, a co-sponsor of the bill, which is expected to pass the Democratic Senate but run into trouble in the Republican House. "Marriage is serious business...
...could have channeled a little more carefully. In one passage, for instance, Simpson describes his rage over biased press coverage as he sat in the back of Al Cowling's Bronco. ``Dan Rather was on the radio and he started talking about eight or nine different reports of domestic spousal abuse calls from my house and I said to myself: Where in the hell does that number nine come from...
...They didn't want to listen," Cochran said. He said that Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden's depiction of the Simpsons' marriage as full of violence was "not exactly true." He said there was no evidence his client had hurt Nicole after 1989, when he pleaded no contest to spousal battery. Furthermore, he asserted that experts would testify that the murderer would have been covered with blood afterwards...
...many other states, appeals courts have issued rulings that have a similar effect. One of those states is California. In a 1986 spousal-murder case, People v. Zack, which could have serious implications for Simpson, the California Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man accused of killing his wife, ruling that prosecutors could offer evidence that he had assaulted her repeatedly in the past. In the Simpson case, Deputy District Attorney Scott Gordon told the court, "This murder took 17 years to commit...