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While most of us accept the fact that the law must make generalizations, such as the arbitrary designation of 16 or 18 as the age of consent, our society frequently permits exceptions to these rules. A marriage in which the bride is 13 or 14 is not unusual, and there is no talk of rape. This is appropriate. Judgments in affairs of the heart should be made on a case-by-case basis. RICHARD FEINBERG Boston...
...Most of us have known that, eventually,Harvard and Radcliffe will merge," said concernedalumna Joan H. Burns '56. "I just want Radcliffeto be the bride with the largest dowry so she willbring some clout to the marriage...
...pitter-patter of $131 billion in annual worldwide sales. That's the love story Wall Street would like to write for Daimler Benz and Chrysler, who went public with their wooing Wednesday. Why? Because the dowry would be huge: Sources close to the deal say Daimler would buy their bride for $35 billion, a full $8 billion above Chrysler's market value. Such a wedding would make for the largest industrial merger in history...
...discovers that one of their trunks is filled with guns that Thomas is bringing to his friends and fellow abolitionists. Suddenly, she finds herself faced with her first doubts about the match. But she handles them in a typical Lidieesque, no-nonsense manner. "It's a fact that no bride knows what layers are in her groom," she debates to herself, "[and] that every wedding is a lottery, too. All weddings are alike in that. But it was also true that...I'd seen what I wanted to see in Mr. Thomas Newton...
...prankish new novel, set in pre-Civil War Kansas, after campaigning with the fiery abolitionist John Brown through the same time and terrain in Russell Banks' thunderous epic Cloudsplitter. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Knopf; 448 pages; $26) follows Lidie, a sturdy young Illinois bride, to the dust-blown outpost of Lawrence, Kans., in the tumultuous year of 1855. Lawrence is a raw, ill-favored roost of newly arrived Free Soil settlers, jostled by drunken proslave irregulars from Missouri and protected, mostly with words, by gassy politicians. John Brown and his terrible sons, the focus...