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...Egypt, where much of the legal code has been secularized. In Islam, women can have only one spouse, while men are permitted four. The legal age for girls to marry tends to be very young. Muhammad's favorite wife, A'isha, according to her biographer, was six when they wed, nine when the marriage was consummated. In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls, 14 for boys. The law has occasionally been exploited by pedophiles, who marry poor young girls from the provinces, use and then abandon them. In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam: The Women Of Islam | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Egypt, where much of the legal code has been secularized. In Islam, women can have only one spouse, while men are permitted four. The legal age for girls to marry tends to be very young. Muhammad's favorite wife, A'isha, according to her biographer, was six when they wed, nine when the marriage was consummated. In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls, 14 for boys. The law has occasionally been exploited by pedophiles, who marry poor young girls from the provinces, use and then abandon them. In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Women of Islam | 11/25/2001 | See Source »

Gunther will be back for another key regional matchup against No. 25 Hartford next Wed. If the Crimson wins that game as well as the rest of its schedule, it should be more than enough to secure a top-16 seed and regional hosting honors...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Doctor, Doctor: Good News, Bad News for W. Soccer | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...used to be that college sweethearts wed soon after their graduation. They attended football games together, exchanged letterman sweaters or strings of beads (depending on how long their hair was) and set off into the outside world, together. Now, however, it seems that college relationships rarely translate into anything beyond just that: an intimate companionship during just those four years of school. By the time we’ve entered college, we are too old for a relationship to have any significant formative impact on our lives. And, apparently, we are too young and unworldly to commit ourselves to anything...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Can't Buy Me Young Love | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...lost or even because he has something to teach us about the surrounding forest. Try to think of it as a marriage, he says. "Sometimes you have a wife and she is no good so you have to get a new one," says Hasan, who, at 25, has just wed his fourth. "A man must have a good wife. And all tourists must have a guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swap Bali's Bustle For the (Promised) Peace of Lombok | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

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