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Paul, a graduate student in New York City, and Donna, a financial adviser, are just two in a long, flourishing line of kissin' first cousins. Charles Darwin wed his cousin Emma and spawned 10 children, including four brilliant scientists. Albert Einstein's second wife Elsa was his first cousin. Queen Victoria said "I do" to hers. So have millions worldwide. In parts of Saudi Arabia, 39% of all marriages are between first cousins...
...point of view, this may or may not be cause for celebration. Days after her March wedding, Minnelli, 56, and her curiously well-preserved new husband David Gest, 48, thwarted a mugging on their honeymoon in London. Last week she opened her new show at the Royal Albert Hall, impressing critics by belting out standards and dancing energetically. But on the same day, she was named in a lawsuit brought by her stepmother Lee Anderson Minnelli, 94, who was married to Liza's father Vincente before his death in 1986. The elder woman's civil suit claims Liza sold...
...like a saving for me. I became obsessed with the idea of traveling back in time so that I could save my father. He smoked heavily and lived life too fully, I suppose. An interesting coincidence is that he died in 1955—the same year that Albert Einstein died. As I read about Einstein and his idea that time is absolute, I clearly knew I had a lot to learn about math and science. But this started me on my journey of researching the concept of time travel...
Queen, however, was not a role she coveted. A persistent rumor has it that the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth rejected Prince Albert's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 13th year of a quiet marriage and the parents of two girls when Albert's older brother Edward VIII gave up his crown to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorce. Albert thereupon became King George VI and Elizabeth his Queen Consort...
...from the boil on the ass of America. Comments like this aren’t unusual when you live in New Jersey, a place alternately referred to as the armpit of America, New York’s garbage dump and turnpike heaven. Finally Jobbins and his two roommates, Albert J. Lim ’04 and Ryan G. White ’04, decided that they had enough of the abuse, that it was time to fight back on behalf of their mid-Atlantic home. They founded a student group called Harvard Lovers of the Garden State, otherwise known...