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There have been a few ads in the NY Times weddings section that spoof the real wedding announcements. For instance, we believe we recall a few for divorce services, but less ironically, there have been ads for marriage-related movies, like The Starter Wife. And this week, there's an ad for an upcoming wedding on the ABC comedy Ugly Betty. Of course, the ad is a lot wordier than the usual NY Times wedding announcement, but any mention of Wilhemina assistant Marc St. James is worth the extra ink.

Sen. Clinton proposed awarding every newborn American with a $5,000 bond that could be invested and allowed to grow to a sum that could be redeemed for educational or home buying needs when they reached adulthood. It became a point of widespread criticism for the Senator for New York, even among those who are politically sympathetic. The Daily News quotes a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University saying "Oh, what a blunder, big time." Republicans piled on, seeking to paint Clinton as a traditional tax-and-spend Democrat. With approximately four million Americans born every year, Clinton's plan could cost upwards of $20 billion annually.

The wedding season is in full swing: Second week in a row where there are over 30 weddings in the NY Times Weddings & Celebrations section. Here we go:

It's officially spring, and that means lots of NY Times wedding announcements. Twenty-six, to be exact.

It's still officially the winter, so there just ten weddings announced this weekend in the NY Times. Let's get to the good stuff:

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it.

Another really short Weddings and Celebrations this week, so enough with the pleasantries and let's just jump in:

Here are this weeks Weddings and Celebrations, by the numbers:

Here are this weeks Weddings and Celebrations, by the numbers:

Maybe because Gothamist has seen Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy, we feel the disappearance of Spalding Gray is sad. Gray's wife reported him missing, and people are worried since he has a history of depression and attempting suicide. Sometimes called the WASP Woody Allen, Gray is a writer, actor, and monologuist. His brother, Rockwell Gray, a professor at Washington University, tells the Times, "I wouldn't say he was in a happy state. [But] it wasn't unusual. He's been in a fairly depressed condition for some time." In Impossible Vacation, Spalding wrote:
I remember standing in that second-story window and looking down, wondering if I really had the courage to jump and if I did would it kill me from such a small height. I think I figured I'd just break a leg or something and end up in a cast for the rest of the summer, and that would be much better than dying because of all the attention I'd get. But then I also realized that Mom wouldn't be able to give me any attention, because she was cracking up and needed all of it for herself.
In an interview with Harvard, Gray describes a 2002 car accident in Ireland that apparently left him even more depressed.

A doctor claims that reading Harry Potter has made a few of his patients sick. George Washington University Medical Center's Dr. Howard Bennett wrote to the New England Journal of Medicine that three children, ages 8 to 10, had "a dull headache for two or three days." A commonality among the three? Reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for hours. Dr. Bennett wrote, "The obvious cure for this malady -- that is, taking a break from reading -- was rejected by two of the patients." So they took acetaminophen instead. And then the headaches disappeared when the kids finished the books. Dr. Bennett predicts many Harry Potter headaches in the future. All Gothamist wants to know is where was this dude when we had headaches from studying?

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