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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...
...year-old acting head of the Japan Chess Association said turbulent circumstances had forced her to reveal what she had previously preferred to keep private?that she and Fischer have been living together in Tokyo for the past four years. And now, she says, they want to wed: "We would like to live happily ever after...
...columnist Andrew Sullivan's essay on the Senate's defeat of the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage [July 26]: For anyone to claim that the weddings of same-sex couples somehow tarnish the sanctity of marriage is absolutely ridiculous. How sacred is marriage when two people can be wed by an Elvis impersonator in a Las Vegas drive-through chapel? If gay marriage is such a threat and heterosexual marriage is so sacred, why isn't the religious right working to create a constitutional amendment to ban divorce, thus preserving the sanctity of marriage forever? LOUIS FUENTES San Antonio, Texas...
...life and was imprisoned because he fought against apartheid. To make any comparison is insulting. Nathalie Greifenstein Mainz, Germany Division Over Unions Re columnist Andrew Sullivan's essay on the Senate's defeat of the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage [July 26]: For anyone to claim that the weddings of same-sex couples somehow tarnish the sanctity of marriage is absolutely ridiculous. How sacred is marriage when two people can be wed by an Elvis impersonator in a Las Vegas drive-through chapel? Or get married and then have the union annulled two days later, as Britney Spears...
...when he married Phyllis, who was just 21. He had been married before, to the sophisticated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The Sun obit adds: ?As reported the next day in the Los Angeles Times, Lee bore him a son on the very day he and Adams were wed? - December 1, 1944. What neither paper mentions is that the child wasn?t Kirkland?s; it was Preminger?s. The boy was first called Erik Kirkland, then Erik de Diego. When he learned his father?s true identity, the young man took the name Erik Lee Preminger. In his marriage to Phyllis...