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Friends say the union of John Kerry [related, bio] and Julia Thorne was a rousing love affair when they met at Yale - he a dashing 19-year-old, she a bikini-clad babe and twin sister to Kerry's best friend. But for a political marriage, it was a dud and it ended badly. It couldn't have happened at a worse time for the budding politician's career, the summer of 1982, just as Kerry emerged as a serious candidate for Massachusetts lieutenant governor. Kerry later called the divorce a ``super-painful process'' and laughs off his bachelor days as the loneliest time of his...

I seem to remember just last week this very newspaper did everything in its power to have the divorce records of Jack Ryan, a Republican, made public. I believe the reason was that there was a compelling public interest. This paper went so far as to sue to have the records released. As we all know, Jack Ryan's political career has been ended for intents and purposes because of this public interest. Now John Kerry, a Democrat, has publicly and adamantly refused to release the records from his two divorces and we don't here a word about it from the...