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...know right now is just how far along the talks are," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Jordan Bonfante. "A deal like this is very complex -- just look at Rolls Royce and BMW, a much more simple negotiation that has dragged on for months." Other hurdles on the road to wedlock: Antitrust investigations in both Brussels and Washington. Of course, the course of corporate love never did run smooth. And the promise of all those hot sports utility vehicles at Chrysler should keep Daimler on the straight and narrow...
Aclose friend of mine has been living with his high school sweetheart out of wedlock for nearly three years now. Not long ago I asked him if he and his girlfriend had plans to marry in the near future. I was taken aback by his matter- of-fact response: "No," he said simply, "we don't feel there's any need to rush into something that important...
...While accidental and unintended pregnancies occur in marriages all the time, those children are usually brought into the world with significant advantages (such as a stable environment in which they can be physically and emotionally nourished and protected) over their less fortunate counter-parts born to parents out-of-wedlock...
...Duties Toward the Body in Respect of Sexual Impulse," a portion of his Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant made a powerful argument against sexual relations out-of-wedlock. The argument is all the more hard-hitting when one reflects that Kant is considered to be a father of modern liberalism. Suggesting that the rights of sexual partners to each other could only be secured by marital commitment, Kant argued that "there must be a basis for restraining our freedom in the use we make of our inclinations so that they conform to the principles of morality." This is at odds...
Also, admittedly the children of good monarchs are not necessarily good themselves. We rather wish that Prince Rainier's daughter, Princess Stephanie, hadn't gone from one convicted boyfriend to another, finally having two children out of wedlock with her bodyguard, who had another girlfriend pregnant at the same time. We also wish that Queen Margrethe of Denmark's son, Prince Frederik, didn't date lingerie models...