Word: brides
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...rocked sales records with the Hope diamond and the Star of the East. Although divas like the Duchess of Windsor and Renee Zellweger have coveted such Cartier classics as the Panther pin and the Trinity ring, few can top the 69.42-carat diamond that Richard Burton bought for his bride Elizabeth Taylor. --By James Scully
...shaved off the long beard he had grown. He even began wearing T shirts and jeans again, instead of the short dishdasha. Still, his father was worried, so he broached a sensitive subject with his son. Would he consider marriage if his parents could come up with the right bride? To Shakr's delight, Omar didn't hesitate. Yes, he said, and within two days, he had settled on his wife-to-be. Soon he was spending all his time chatting with her on the phone. "My father's actions turned my life in a new direction," says Omar. "Things...
...seen Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice before--as an MGM classic, a BBC mini-series and, last year, a modern-day Mormon movie. But Bride and Prejudice will mark the first time we've seen it go Bollywood. Director Gurinder Chadha enjoyed a surprise smash with Bend It like Beckham. Can she go from goal to gold? --By Richard Corliss...
Sister Maria had been addressing that subject minutes before Cardinal Pell's arrival: "If you were interviewing a group of very happily married ladies, probably they'd give very different answers about why they were so happy," she says. For this bride of Christ, joy comes with each attendance at morning Mass: "We couldn't be more intimately united with Him every day." As for Sister Antoinette, her faith is cultivated daily along with the standard roses she tends in the central cloister. "As a botanist," she says, "I always allow for the grace of God." Needless to say, they...
Every new bride fears she'll end up with the in-laws from hell. But if you think yours are bad, try comparing notes with CARMEN BIN LADIN. In 1974 this half-Swiss, half-Persian daughter of an aristocrat married a Saudi named Yeslam and inherited more than 50 sisters-and brothers-in-law, one of whom was Yeslam's younger half brother Osama bin Laden--then a mere religious zealot she describes as "not strikingly different from the other brothers." In her new book, Inside the Kingdom, bin Ladin details the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia and within...