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When Kelly Fischer drove by in his white pick-up with his teenage step-daughter seated between him and his legal wife, his neighbor Isaac Wyler knew something was up. Sure enough, the next time Wyler saw the girl, who was about 15 or 16 years old, she was pregnant. Wyler, an ex-member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was no stranger to the signs of polygamy. His suspicions proved true: Fischer had "spiritually" married his own step-daughter in a secret ceremony, a practice common among polygamists in the FLDS community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Marriage Is Illegal | 7/18/2006 | See Source »

...center. (It's a subject that, because of the Supreme Court ruling, is still likely to be a staple of the questions at his European press conferences this week.) The massive demonstrations that had been predicted in Austria did not materialize, and Bush was tickled when Austrian President Heinz Fischer slathered praise on the U.S., recounting the Marshall Plan's role in rebuilding his country after World War II and calling the poll's results "grotesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Friends in Very Strange Places | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...brilliance,” Cunningham says, “Carter would introduce the Glee Club in the language of the country they were in.”But Brown’s “brilliance” was evident even before he entered Harvard. Angela Brown Fischer, Brown’s younger sister, says that Brown tried to impart this knowledge with others.“I was younger than him, so he always tried to teach me,” Fischer says. “He always tried to open people’s eyes to build...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Curator Strikes Peers as 'Brilliant' | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...leader of small group of smart people.” Professors said McCartney’s performance as acting dean was a key factor in her popularity. “Kathy McCartney will be a terrific dean!” wrote Bigelow Professor of Education Kurt Fischer in an e-mail. “She has already done wonders to bring our School together as a community and to begin to articulate a creative vision for our future.” —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Acting Dean Cast as GSE Chief | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...promote policies that bring mothers into the workforce. The combining of career and children has to be made possible in the nearest future. We have a strong will to integrate women in all parts of social life, but the government has to help us make that a reality. Benedikt Fischer Würzburg, Germany

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Way to Civil War? | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

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