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...like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something." MARKUS AMMAN, Liechtenstein government spokesman, after 170 Swiss soldiers accidentally wandered into his tiny country "Boy, I'd like to see the state come and try and split us up." HELEN VETTER, 82, who lives out of wedlock with Don Polries, 87, in violation of North Dakota law; six other states ban cohabitation...
Extremists on both sides of the abortion debate make the issue confusing and difficult [Feb. 26]. I was born out of wedlock, the product of a date rape. We should remember that there are lives involved. Both fetuses and mothers can grow up to be productive members of society. Abortion is too often treated like an avoidance option instead of a last resort. I for one am glad I was not aborted...
...were associated with fascism. Not in France, where the state has favored childbearing by putting an infrastructure in place that encourages women to work and have babies: municipal child-care facilities, liberal family allowances that rise with each subsequent child, and a nonjudgmental attitude about having babies out of wedlock. France banned the term illegitimate from its administrative lexicon in 2005, and last year's baby boom came amid a continuing drop in marriage rates. Almost half of 2006 babies were born to unwed mothers, though increasing numbers have legally recognized civil partnerships...
...hasn't been playing enough tournaments and his untimely Jan. 5 split with coach Roger Rasheed - sudden and rancorous, despite Rasheed's gracious public statement - would derail anyone, besides, perhaps, the cantankerous and determined Hewitt. He still talks a good game and there's little reason to believe that wedlock and fatherhood have dulled his yearning to win his own Open. But if nothing else looks insurmountable to him then Federer might. Hewitt has lost his last nine meetings with the world No. 1 and collected only three sets in the process. For Hewitt to win the tournament, he probably...
Kevin Federline, aka Mr. Britney Spears, is exiting stage left. And... cue applause. After two years of Cheeto-fueled, paparazzi-dogged, chronically underdressed wedlock, Spears has filed for divorce from her background dancer/rapper husband, citing "irreconcilable differences...