Word: widowers
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...cadences of his poetry, and she followed in his footsteps, writing in her native Sindhi about the injustices women face in an Islamic society. Her mother was married off to her father at age 13; he was 60. By the time she turned 30, she was already a widow with three children to care for. Attiya knew from childhood that she would only wed for love. She married when she was 31; when Aslam found out, he felt scandalized by her love match and informal wedding...
Like Judaism and Christianity, its close religious relatives, Islam honors all humanity--not just believers--as created by God, who is referred to as "the compassionate and merciful." The Judeo-Christian respect for the widow and the orphan is amplified by the fact that the Prophet Muhammad was himself an orphan, notes Georgetown's John O. Voll. And for all the conflict depicted in the Koran, its recognition of pluralism is embodied in a verse that explains that God created humans different from one another so that they can learn from one another...
First among Marton's First Couples are Edith and Woodrow Wilson. Edith Bolling Galt was a widow when she married Wilson in what was judged to be unseemly haste since his first wife had died little more than a year earlier. Galt was handsome, fearless, possessive and responsive to Wilson's fevered sexual impulses. Whisper of the times: "What did Mrs. Galt do when the President asked her to marry him? She fell out of bed." Their marriage was "the greatest love story of the modern presidency," Marton writes, her opinion bolstered by the collection of 250 eloquent, if sometimes...
...Partnership ? As homosexuals in parts of Europe press for the right to marry, some heterosexuals are asserting their right not to. After British soldier Brad Tinnion was killed in action in Sierra Leone a year ago, his partner of nine years, Anna Homsi, tried to claim a war widow's pension. Since the two had never married, the Ministry of Defence said no. Like its counterparts in other European countries, including France and Germany, Britain's MoD has no provision for partners who have not established the legal link of marriage. (The couple's daughter, Georgia, born three months after...
...workers are rarely supplied with labor contracts or insurance. The only piece of paper regularly produced by mine owners is a document waiving responsibility should any accident happen. Many of the miners are illiterate, so they simply press a black thumb to the disclaimer in lieu of a signature. Widow Zhang was promised compensation for her husband's death two months ago by a municipal official, but she doubts she will get it because her husband's was an illegal mine...