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In some sham marriages, a love-stricken citizen is victimized by a spouse who marries only to gain permanent residency. Some American men, for example, send away for so-called mail-order brides and are given the gate soon after their wives receive permanent status. Another marriage fraud involves an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tightening the Knot | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Sanghera is certainly no angel. Though underage, she flees Derby with her older, lower-caste boyfriend Jassey, to her family's shame. The young couple settles in nearby Leeds, where Jassey, a trained engineer, sells cheap watches in a market stall to support them. Sanghera rewards his good-humored steadiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marriage Rows | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

"Radiance is the word," Joe Ferrer, a Time editor of the 80s and 90s who is Mel's nephew, wrote to me in an email just after Hepburn's death. "As a person, too. Though I don't think I saw her more than once after the divorce, she maintained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Hepburn: Still the Fairest Lady | 1/20/2007 | See Source »

It was the lawyers of ancient Rome who came up with the modern definition of fatherhood: Mater semper certa est; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant (rough translation: The mother is obvious; the father is the one she was married to when the child was born). The Romans, however, didn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duped Dads Fight Back | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

A woman I used to know told me she made a point of mispronouncing words in fine restaurants, because she knew it drove her husband crazy. "What's this gunnotchy?" she would ask the waiter, pointing to gnocchi on the menu. Once she even pronounced "steak" to rhyme with "leak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Any Place I Lay My Hat | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

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