Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Charles IV and His Family, by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1800. Prado Museum, Madrid.
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Yemen’s parliament passed a law setting the minimum age for marriage at seventeen in 2009, having been spurred by the national attention given to the story of ten-year-old Nujood Ali, who was granted a divorce from a thirty-year-old man. The child-marriage legislation passed in parliament but was put on hold by conservative members, citing potential inconsistencies with Sharia law.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959Lapham’sDaily
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