Word: grooms
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Rachel Dagan had been up all night when she entered the flower shop and asked for a bridal bouquet. The florist smiled and said, "Happy news! Mazel tov to the bride and groom." Dagan hesitated. She didn't want to speak. She didn't want to force her misery on others. But she couldn't hold back. "I'm going to put it on my daughter's grave," she said. The florist burst into tears. Dagan's daughter Danit was only 12 hours dead, killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up beside the young woman and her fiance...
...wedding cakes are following suit. In cities such as Baltimore, Md., and Atlanta newlyweds are replacing that most staid and serious of confections with a more lighthearted and whimsical dessert--tiers of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. The first Krispy Kreme cakes were simple layers stacked by the bride and groom, but as the idea caught on, Krispy Kreme shops (which don't put the cakes together themselves) began offering more elaborate design templates to be carried out by local cake decorators. Newlyweds not quite ready to abandon traditional cakes have been handing out special boxes of the glazed treats as wedding...
Wealth advisers say that your heirs should be told by their teens if they stand to inherit a sizable amount and should start learning how to manage it. Early disclosure gives you time to groom them for a life of philanthropy, civic duty or other worthy pursuits, should they elect not to work for money. If you doubt that your heirs are prepared, test them with an early gift and see what they do with it. If they mess up--say, by blowing it all on a series of vacations and paying for their friends too--or seem...
Okay, but it's a locality with a really busy airport. The Indian wedding of the title may be an arranged marriage accompanied by Bollywood-style singing and dancing, but the groom is an engineer who lives in Houston. Extended family fly in from Muscat and Melbourne, while the striving, fast-talking wedding planner keeps up a mobile-phone patter with his stock-market-mad mother. Nair insists this world is Indian - and, more to the point, Punjabi and New Delhi - to its core. "It's a film made at my dining table," she says. "The Prada miniskirt...
...afford to buy the best players the way foreign clubs do, so the only way they can survive economically is to produce them." Such cooperation is hard to imagine in more market driven football nations' where clubs find it easier to buy talent from overseas than to groom it at home...