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...recruits. But earlier this year, the corps heralded the wedding of a young Marine couple that left for boot camp at Parris Island shortly after they exchanged vows. "We'd see each other when our formations passed each other," recalls Private Sarah Wallace of Sioux City, Iowa, the uniformed bride...
...there are too many moments in My Best Friend's Wedding when her ferocity reads as near motiveless malignity, especially as it is largely directed at Cameron Diaz's Kimmy, the bride-to-be. She's pert and pretty, smart and spunky--not at all someone we wish ill. When our sympathies shift to her, the movie sours. It is no help either that Ronald Bass neglected to write (or Mulroney was unable to find) a character in Michael. Why all this fuss over this lox, we keep wondering. Director P.J. Hogan (Muriel's Wedding) stages a couple of marvelously...
...abdicated from the Dragon Throne at age 6; of lung cancer; in Beijing. Li was a nurse at the hospital where Pu Yi received treatment while he was a prisoner of Mao's harsh "re-education" program. Of their marriage in 1962, Pu Yi wrote, "I and my bride...started our own little home, and this ordinary home was, to me, something extraordinary...
...both elite and democratic. Recently, I discovered a paradox useful to all who are stricken with my favorite disease: acute procrastination. After checking my e-mail every 30 seconds for an hour, popping microwave popcorn, running Yahoo searches to complete my collection of start-up sounds from "The Princess Bride" and, of course, taking naps--all to avoid studying for exams--I needed a new way to procrastinate...
...Catholic belief, no human can dissolve a marriage, a sacrament undertaken by bride and groom before God. Church tribunals do not presume to void the contract. They can only determine (to the dismay of people in Rauch Kennedy's position) that owing to human incapacity or error, a valid contract was never entered into in the first place. For centuries the standards for this were clear and high: mental illness of either spouse, for instance, or impotence at the time of marriage. In 1968 only 338 decrees of nullity were granted in the U.S. But in the early 1960s, John...