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That Thursday, July 23, was Monica's 25th birthday. She had planned a family barbecue at her father's home in Brentwood, Calif., but her comings and goings have been evoking the same response as celebrity weddings do, so she opted for a French restaurant dinner instead. As a present, she told her family, "I want my life back...
...loved Hugh Sidey's tribute to the Marine Corps Band on its 200th birthday [AMERICAN SCENE, July 20]. Oh, how I wish that the start of sports events would feature a recording of the national anthem by this band, or the Army or Navy band--with no vocalist! Let the people sing along if they wish. A really top-notch performance inspires allegiance as nothing else can. But the way many singers and musicians today render the national anthem is an abomination. If I'm watching TV, I turn off the sound until the anthem is finished. DAVID M. BARTHOLOMEW...
...Utah this week, a 16-year-old girl escaped from her family farm after her father beat her for running away, for the second time, from her forced polygamous marriage to his brother, her uncle. The unidentified girl, who celebrated her seventeenth birthday in protective custody at an undisclosed location, told authorities she was her uncle's fifteenth wife. Her uncle and father were arrested and are facing all sorts of charges...
Nolan still doesn't attend church regularly, and she considers herself spiritual, not religious. The only ritual she has decided to keep is coming back to the abbey every June for her birthday. A three-day weekend, it is her only vacation away from her job as a computer specialist in Edinboro, Pa., and this is what she gets: a hard single bed with threadbare sheets in a sweltering, non-air-conditioned room; a warped desk and chair that would be rejected by Motel 6; and simple meals like baked beans or tuna casserole. And for the whole weekend...
...comes from a Lebanese-American family. Lately, Hussein has been grooming Hamzah. The 18-year-old frequently accompanies his father to official functions, and he is being taught how to speak the slang of the Bedouin tribes, an important constituency for the Hashemite dynasty. On Hamzah's 18th birthday, Hussein published a message to his son, reminding him that at that age he had taken on his full duties as King...