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...come from having to entertain fewer people, since it's easier to keep the guest list in check for a destination wedding. But if a destination wedding can be cheap, it can also be a hassle. Since legal requirements for marriage vary by country, couples who venture abroad must contend with complications that would never arise at home. France, for example, requires a pre-marriage residency period of at least 40 days, so destination weddings there are often merely a symbolic exchange of vows, with the official ceremony taking place at home. Italy's laws are more accommodating, but dress...
...when New’s search committee, convened last spring, came up with Menand’s name, it had to contend with competitors from not one but two other colleges seeking to poach...
...plays into the hands of the extremists." But U.S. officials say they never intended to hand power over to these former opposition parties, and privately criticize them for bickering over the makeup of the proposed interim government and failing to build popular support after Saddam's downfall. U.S. officials contend that Bremer's council will represent a broader cross section of society and help pave the way for democratic elections. --By Romesh Ratnesar and Scott MacLeod
Prosecutors contend that the $60 stop-loss agreement was a false alibi concocted by Stewart and Bacanovic to explain the events of Dec. 27, 2001. Stewart was on her way to a vacation in Mexico, and Bacanovic--then off on his own holiday--had just learned that ImClone co-founder Sam Waksal wanted to sell all the ImClone shares in his Merrill Lynch account, worth $4.9 million. Bacanovic called Stewart's assistant and left the message "Peter Bacanovic thinks ImClone is going to start trading downward...
Those who send spam for a living contend that some vigilantes, in their antispam fervor, take it too far. "I have had death threats against my family," complains Robert (Bubba) Catts, a former used-car salesman and professional bull rider from Shreveport, La. Catts, who runs a 10 million--message-a-day direct-marketing business and clears up to $700,000 a year, was exposed when his address and phone number were listed, along with those of 179 other "top spammers," on the British-based website Spamhaus.org...