Word: brides
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...child marriages, or see the prosecution as religious persecution? After two and a half days of deliberation and the replacement of one juror, they found that Jeffs did "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly solicit, request, command or encourage" a 19-year-old follower to rape his 14-year-old bride at least twice...
...support, so he enrolled in the Education for Employment program after graduation and promptly landed an accountant job for CCC in the U.A.E. He sends at least a third of his $1,500 monthly paycheck home, with plenty remaining to provide for the woman who recently became his bride--as well as to make the required 10% tithe to the foundation...
...says Kashmiri weddings comprise an almost month-long cycle of feasts and exchange of gifts between the bride's and the groom's family. "Each side tries to outdo the other in the amount and value of gifts they offer," he says, "and this is considered to have become an unquestionable custom." His organization's members have committed to spending $1,250 or less on their wedding, and to hold "simple and austere" weddings in accordance with Shariah law, he says...
...fairly win-win for Gaiman. If Stardust becomes the next Princess Bride, then hooray, and if it doesn't, it's back to cult figurehood. "Five years ago, I was absolutely as famous as I wanted to be," he says. "I'm now more famous than I'm comfortable with." In a genre like fantasy, the relationship between artist and fan is a fragile, intimate thing, and in some sense Gaiman is still that nerdy public school kid. He's leery of selling out to the popular crowd. "I have really mixed feelings about the coming Watchmen movie," he says...
...Gildoray and its lost prince. Soon, Adam believes that he is actually the lost prince of Gildoray. The rest of the play features short scenes of Adam’s quest for Gildoray, during which he battles pirates, warriors, and gryphons, falls in love and rescues his young bride, liberates a village, saves a young couple, and faces natural disasters, to name a few of his adventures...