Word: bachelors
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...trees are blooming; the birds are singing; the newspaper society sections are thick with marriage announcements. As the last soggy weeks of spring give way to the balmy days of summer, wedding season has arrived - and with it, an onslaught of bachelor parties. With an estimated 2.2 million weddings in the U.S. each year, providing for the groom's send-off is big business. Dozens of websites cater to the needs of the bachelor-party planner (typically, the groom's best man). I-Volution Inc., which owns two of the largest bachelor-party sites on the Web, says its websites...
...bachelor party, however, goes back much further than you'd expect. It's rooted in ancient history - as early as the 5th century B.C. It is believed that the ancient Spartans were the first to make a celebration out of the groom's last night as a single man. Spartan soldiers held a dinner in their friend's honor and made toasts on his behalf - with, one assumes, a Spartan sense of decorum. Since then, the events have generally grown more raucous. In 1896, a stag party thrown by Herbert Barnum Seeley - a grandson of P.T. Barnum - for his brother...
Four guys--the groom (Justin Bartha), his fiancée's oddball brother (Zach Galifianakis), a henpecked friend (Ed Helms) and the token normal guy (Bradley Cooper)--go to Las Vegas for a booze-babes-and-baccarat bachelor party two nights before the wedding. It'll be, one promises, a "night we'll never forget." Next morning, three of them come groggily to in their suite. With them are a tiger in the bathroom and an infant in the closet. Missing, to their horror, are the groom--and any memory of what happened the night before...
...script, by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, sends four guys - Doug the groom (Justin Bartha), plus Alan, his fiancée's oddball brother (Galifianakis), and Phil and Stu - to Las Vegas for a booze-babes-and-baccarat bachelor party two nights before the wedding. It'll be, one promises, a "night we'll never forget." Next morning, three of them come groggily to in their suite. With them are a tiger in the bathroom and an infant in the closet. Missing, to their horror, are the groom, one of Stu's front teeth - and any memory of what happened...
...work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed him for his cabinet post in January. He has served as head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley. Harvard College will award 1,562 degrees today: 1,549 Bachelor of Arts degrees and 13 Bachelor of Science degrees. 794 men and 768 women make up the graduating class. Seventy undergraduates, representing about 4 percent of the class, earned summa cum laude degrees—the highest degree awarded by the College—in their fields of concentration. 85 graduates will receive...