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CHILDREN? One, out of wedlock Two, in dubious wedlock...
...blood across a sheet. Vittorio Innocente--the name itself doesn't travel light--lives unanchored in a Toronto of immigrants, with nothing, as he says, but his freedom. Driving around town in his late father's Oldsmobile, he cannot slough off his mother's infidelity and the out-of-wedlock child she bore, while dying herself, on the passage to America...
When you've spent 27 years in prison, every birthday is precious. NELSON MANDELA of South Africa made his 80th even more so by marrying his sweetheart, GRACA MACHEL, 52, the widow of a former President of Mozambique and an advocate for international child welfare. Rumors of wedlock had been rife, but Mandela had betrayed no hint of matrimony, even as he received birthday gifts early on Saturday at the presidential residence in Pretoria. Then, in the afternoon, a press conference of "national importance" was announced, luring reporters from Mandela's home outside Johannesburg. With the press...
...hubris is characteristic of the Harvard-educated computer whiz who once listed his IQ on his resume: 214. Born out of wedlock to a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant, Unz went on to win first prize in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and, after majoring in theoretical physics and ancient history, studied quantum gravitation with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University. In 1988 he formed a financial-software firm, Wall Street Analytics, which made him wealthy, and began funding conservative think tanks. Unz, who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household, says, "America is successful because we have assimilated immigrants...
...couple, both members of the class of '98, secretly married last year when they discovered she was pregnant. Today at West Point, having a baby can't get you thrown out, but wedlock can. The Army launched a probe into the couple's marital status earlier this year after the father acknowledged the union while filling out a pregraduation form detailing his housing needs. Army investigators confirmed that the pair were married clandestinely, and recommended to Lieut. General Daniel Christman, West Point's superintendent, that they be expelled. After all, that's been West Point's punishment for the very...