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...August four Kings, five Queens, 10 princes and 12 princesses sat in Oslo Cathedral and watched Mette-Marit, single mother and self-confessed wild child, bring fairy tales to life by marrying Norway's Crown Prince Haakon. In a country where half the children are born out of wedlock, the blond beauty is truly a princess of the people. Haakon, who ignored criticism from conservatives and stuck to the love match, has proved himself a most princely stepfather...
...final issue of the mag, we side-stepped the pre-printed horoscope and went straight to a genuine mystic. We all asked her what was in store for our future and I became horribly distraught when she said I’d have three children out of wedlock. Children? Wedlock? What are these scary words and why did the mystic feel the need to throw them in my face? Couldn’t her little sparkly gold rocks tell her that I still get the hives from words like “deadline” and “graduate?...
...only played a minor role in their decision not to marry. The couple says that roughly half their friends have similarly chosen to live together and raise children - without getting married. That pattern holds true throughout much of Scandinavia, where about half of all children are born out of wedlock, almost double the E.U. average. This more informal structure is helped by a legal framework that is increasingly sympathetic to nontraditional families: in Denmark, for example, under a law passed this year, cohabiting couples automatically have joint custody of newborn children. Throughout Europe, couples like the Skovlind-Nielsens are redefining...
Villaraigosa, 48, a former labor organizer, certainly had plenty of baggage. A former street tough who grew up in East L.A., he had out-of-wedlock kids and failed the state bar exam four times. But Hahn didn't bother with any of that. He had all he needed in a letter Villaraigosa wrote to the White House in 1996, seeking a presidential pardon for convicted drug trafficker Carlos Vignali, whose father was a campaign contributor. Before the election, Hahn hammered Villaraigosa for a solid week with a TV ad showing images of a crack-cocaine pipe, a copy...
That is what has been happening to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the undisputed political leader of black America for the past generation, since the National Enquirer reported in January that he had fathered an out-of-wedlock child with Karin Stanford. She was the head of the Washington office of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition during much of their four-year affair. In an attempt to refute the notion that he is mortally wounded, Jackson, 59, has been staging appearances with supportive ministers and Wall Street captains and issuing a barrage of sports cliches ("The ground is no place...