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MARRIED. AL-MUHTADEE BILLAH BOLKIAH, 30, crown prince of the sultanate of Brunei, to SARAH SALLEH, 17, daughter of a Brunei civil servant and a Swiss nurse; in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. The couple were wed in a five-minute ceremony that marked the end of two weeks of celebrations. Some 2,000 guests attended the wedding, including royalty and heads of state from Asia and the Middle East. The events were estimated to cost $5 million?considered subdued by the oil-rich kingdom's opulent standards...
MARRIED. AL-MUHTADEE BILLAH BOLKIAH, 30, crown prince of the sultanate of Brunei ; to SARAH SALLEH, 17, daughter of a Brunei civil servant and a Swiss nurse; in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. A five-minute ceremony, following two weeks of celebrations, was attended by 2,000 guests including royalty and heads of state from Asia and the Middle East. The events were estimated to cost $5 million - considered subdued by the oil-rich kingdom's opulent standards. RECOVERING. BILL CLINTON, 58; after a four-hour quadruple-bypass operation during which doctors found his heart disease to be extensive, with some...
...tempting to trace this never-look-back attitude to Nair's childhood. She was born into a middle-class civil servant's family in Bhubaneswar, a dirt-poor city in eastern India that is usually given a wide berth by tourists. "Even in Indian terms, it's really remote," she says. Nair was also, she claims, an unwanted child?or, as she puts it, a "contraceptual blunder." In 1957 the Indian government was worried about its exploding population, and her father, a senior bureaucrat, had sworn to limit the family to the two sons they already had. He sent...
...stories about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired the two to solve plot problems in The Man With Two Left Feet (1917), and the rest is history. To the many theories about the characters' origins, McCrum insightfully adds: "The cunning servant?foolish master has been a staple of comedy since classical times, and Wodehouse certainly knew his Plautus and his Terence." By the 1920s, magazines like Liberty and The Saturday Evening Post would pay up to $35,000 to serialize a Wodehouse novel. At the dawn of the Depression...
...scientists. "And we expect," says Archer, "that given the nature of the geology of this region, there's no reason that deposits of as rich a kind as we're discovering now won't be found representing the time of dinosaurs. Anything's possible." For his part, public servant Creaser wants to explore those possibilities - first-hand - for as long as he can. It's strange, but life rarely seems more exhilarating than when searching for its traces in the remains of a ghostly world...