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Paul, a graduate student in New York City, and Donna, a financial adviser, are just two in a long, flourishing line of kissin' first cousins. Charles Darwin wed his cousin Emma and spawned 10 children, including four brilliant scientists. Albert Einstein's second wife Elsa was his first cousin. Queen Victoria said "I do" to hers. So have millions worldwide. In parts of Saudi Arabia, 39% of all marriages are between first cousins...
...Early Show, which he joined in 1999. "After more than 17 years of hosting a morning news program, I feel it's time for me to move on and do something else with my life," he said. One of the recently divorced Gumbel's endeavors will be to wed girlfriend Hilary Quinlan; he will also continue to act as host on Real Sports on hbo. Beyond that, little of his plans are known. Though its ratings have improved somewhat, The Early Show has languished in third place in its time slot, behind NBC and abc, drawing attention mainly when ousted...
...movie of MacDowell's life has a happy ending. Last year she wed Rhett Hartzog, a childhood friend; they live in Asheville, N.C., with the three children from her earlier marriage. And she is working on a sitcom pilot--for CBS, with her Four Weddings director Mike Newell--that would keep her close to home. "If you have children," she says, "if you're in your right mind, they've got to be your priority. My kids and my husband--that's my life. And acting is my job, a job I love. It's all a matter of balance...
Game time against the Big Green is 6 p.m. Wed. on Jordan Field...
Queen, however, was not a role she coveted. A persistent rumor has it that the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth rejected Prince Albert's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 13th year of a quiet marriage and the parents of two girls when Albert's older brother Edward VIII gave up his crown to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorce. Albert thereupon became King George VI and Elizabeth his Queen Consort...