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Says Adams of the experience: "We really didn't know if anyone would consent to be photographed, but once the word got around, we got amazing cooperation." For one thing, Adams' sessions never took more than ten minutes. "In fact," he says, "the Prime Ministers of Britain, Italy and China [Margaret Thatcher, Bettino Craxi and Zhao Ziyang] all showed up at the same time, and we took three different sets of portraits in 15 minutes...
...fathers and male guardians who try to force their daughters into wedlock should be thrown in jail until the men change their minds. He made it clear that forced marriages originated as a pre-Islamic custom and are antithetical to Shari'a law, which stipulates that a woman must consent to a marriage or else it is not considered valid...
...lousy." Washington last month called home Ambassador Herman Nickel "for consultations" as a sign of displeasure with the government in Pretoria. Some White House aides have hinted that they will work in House-Senate conference for a sanctions measure mild enough to win President Reagan's reluctant consent...
...what the future holds for Becker? No question about it, he is an authentic phenomenon on at least three indisputable counts. He is, at 17, the youngest man ever to win Wimbledon, which may be media frazzled but is still by irrational common consent the world's premier tennis tournament. He is also the first unseeded player to do so and the first from Germany. Other unheralded players have used this great stage to announce their arrival at the threshold of greatness (Bjorn Borg, who reached the quarter finals in 1973 at 17; John McEnroe, who gained the semis...
...Parental consent though, can be more legally powerful than Royal or aristocratic suggestion. In Massachusetts, minors under the age of 18 need a court order from either a probate court or district court to apply for a marriage license. In Mississippi, young lovers under the age of 21 must obtain written consent for a marriage, or the parents will be notified via certified mail. The question is: will the certified mail or the postcard from Vegas arrive first...