Word: wedding
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Just a couple weeks after the economics concentrator and Leverett House resident gets her Harvard diploma, she and Carapezza will wed in Louisiana—not far from where the Saints play, as it happens...
...other change was Alice's age. In the book she is "seven-and-a-half, exactly"; here she's 19 and meant to wed a pruny nobleman. It's not a crime for a film to turn a girl into a young lady: Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz was 16, about twice the age of the book's Dorothy. And upping Alice's age removes the whisper of pedophilia that the 20th century applied to the love that Charles Dodgson, the Oxford math professor who was the real Lewis Carroll, lavished on the real Alice Liddell...
...March 4, a law went into effect that allowed gay couples in Mexico City to wed, despite outcries from the Roman Catholic Church and President Felipe Calderón's conservative National Action Party. With five other Latin American nations already recognizing same-sex civil unions, the region has become a major front in the gay-marriage battle. The law, passed last year by a solid majority, also grants same-sex couples the right to adopt children. Calderón called the move unconstitutional and vowed to challenge it in court...
Many of the applicants, hurried on by the specter of California's Proposition 8, feared that their freedom to wed could be fleeting. Brian Guse and Theran Shelton, the 23rd couple in line, got to the courthouse at 7:30 a.m. "We looked at each other and said, 'We gotta act. We gotta act while it's still available to us,' because I imagine [the legislation] will be challenged," Guse said. "Our mothers said the same thing...
...Love wants to get really creepy, it turns to Alby, who after the death of the patriarch Roman Grant, his and Nicki's father, has assumed control over UEB, because God told him to. He's declared that Adaleen, Nicki's mother and Roman's widow, should be "sealed" (wed) to J.J., Nicki's reptilian first husband; and Adaleen, with odd docility, agrees. At the sealing ceremonies, Nicki bursts in to find that Alby is planning to seal Cara Lynn, Nicki's and J.J.'s daughter, to an old man whose seventh bride she would be. Furiously, she whisks...