Word: courtship
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...revolutionary idea for a sitcom--in 1994. Overshadowed by more distinctive sitcom debuts this fall (see #10), Mother does for the young-urbans comedy what Everybody Loves Raymond did for the bickering-in-laws genre: proves that originality isn't everything. The gimmicky hook--narrator looks back on his courtship from 25 years in the future--is a distraction; what stands out is the crackling dialogue and rapport among the ensemble cast. (When Neal Patrick Harris isn't slipping the show into his tailored breast pocket, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan are so cute you could sprinkle powdered sugar...
Finding a spouse remains the priority. Internet dating sites, like LDSHearts.com are popular. But the church prefers to encourage more traditional courtship. When Oaks, the Mormon leader who fretted about the rise of singles, declared in May, "It's marriage time," imploring young people to lay off group activities and date more, single Saints across the country took heed. Even in Manhattan--with a vast support network of unmarried Mormons--Jeffrey Jackson, 27, says he and friends in his singles ward immediately put "more focus on one-on-one relationships," proposing more dates and trying to consider their female friends...
...short, the people’s will on the matter was abundantly clear, and there was no need for Romney to reintroduce a settled issue for a third time in a decade. Indeed, the attempted reintroduction of capital punishment is only the latest installment in Romney’s courtship of the GOP’s conservative wing. Romney has already become something of a national symbol of the opposition to same-sex unions. Despite strong support for gay marriages in his own state, Romney has repeatedly tried to advance his own ideology in the legislature, which, in turn...
...following year. Then came the hard part. Shortly before Mandela was freed, he and De Klerk met for the first time, again at the presidential residence in Cape Town. Things went well, both men now recall. Like partners in a soured marriage looking back to the heady days of courtship, they remember how pleased and surprised they were by each other's responsiveness, courtesy and willingness to cooperate. ''We immediately started talking freely to each other,'' says De Klerk. ''He met me on a basis of equality and discussed issues objectively,'' Mandela notes. ''I was tremendously impressed.'' Once...
...nailed together in a high wind. The regions seem just as violent now as they did before Arafat and Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, and before Mandela and De Klerk locked into their collaboration toward a new South African constitution. And yet. . . Peacemaking, like warmaking or courtship, depends upon exquisitely balanced, mysterious and usually unpredictable combinations of context, timing, luck, leadership, mood, personal needs, outside help and spending