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...delegated all responsibility for educating undergraduate women to Harvard. Since then, its status as an independent college has been a fig-leaf. What is a college to do after all its students attend another? What is Indigo Montoya to do after he avenges his father' death in The Princess Bride...
...hunt: four bricks from her great-grandparents' house in Tennessee. Local newspaper archives can tell you more than you want to know. Dennis Rawlings, a Fort Myers, Fla., real estate broker, unearthed an account of his great-grandparents' wedding in Cedar Bluffs, Neb. The guests were named, the bride's dress described and the presents listed, including five pickle casters. "Pickle casters must have been the late 1800s equivalent of can openers," Rawlings jokes...
Ronald Reagan knew how to win a reluctant bride. He told Americans how beautiful they were, how generous and strong and brave, and even if everyone knew that some of this was blarney, it was still lovely to be loved and to try to live up to the image. So it is a little sad and strange to listen to conservative leaders--who still honor Reagan as the greatest modern President--as they file for divorce from the people he cherished so deeply...
...everyone is thrilled about it. Lonely-hearts clubs have been around forever, but the flashy electronic cousin of the mail-order bride catalog has led to as many as 6,000 marriages annually and raised a few eyebrows. Early this month, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service sent Congress a report recommending that there be stricter regulation and that foreign women be properly warned about the potential for exploitation. Leni Marin, of the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco, says some matchmakers market foreign women as obedient and submissive. "If you're obedient, then you're a willing...
...disaster in Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere, the hazards work both ways. Gerry Williams, a photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, brought home a mail-order wife from Russia in November 1997. Six months later, as he was leaving for Russia to do a story on the industry, his unhappy bride bolted. "She cleaned me out," says Williams. "She used me to get to America to meet a younger, richer...