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Planning Your Wedding while Planning for the Future (Harrisburg Daily Register) - (ARA) - Your wedding day should be special, with family and friends gathered to help you celebrate, the ceremony reflecting your love and the reception providing a perfect finale.

Spreading the McPheever (The Nation via Yahoo! News) - The Nation -- I confess. I watch American Idol. At the end of a long Tuesday or Wednesday at The Nation, I don't reach for Le Monde Diplomatique or New Left Review. I reach for my remote. And I enjoy the critical powers of American Idol Judge Simon Cowell.

Farewell to B &B on Maori Television (Scoop.co.nz) - Get out your glad rags for the wedding of the year in the season finale of Maori Television’s popular comedy B & B (Tuesday May 23 at 9.30 PM).

THEATER REVIEW: EIGHTIES REDUX (New York Press) - Let’s disabuse each other of the idea that we should think at Broadway musicals. Maybe, once upon a time, that’s what some intelligent folk thought could be done with the form—and yes, we know that musicals can be written to make us think as well as feel. But can we be honest?

Start Your Marriage on Firm Financial Ground (Hope Star) - (ARA) - One of the most popular times of year to get married is finally here. Thousands of couples will tie the knot this spring and summer, most of them spending countless hours planning the wedding and honeymoon. But it seems very little thought goes into something just as important.

European press review (BBC News) - Today's press makes predictions about the EU accession report for Romania and Bulgaria, while the dirty tricks scandal continues in France and Germany's press comments on the education of immigrant children.

Backstory: A natural Segway ... (USA Today) - The Segway, the enviro-happy machine unveiled to great hype in 2001, has made steady, if modest, inroads among early adopters, becoming the stuff of daily life for pockets of enthusiasts from coast to coast. It's used to commute, have fun and, in the case of Segway tour operators, make money.

(5/17/2006) CLEAN (Willamette Week) - Performance (REVIEW) Washing away your sins, one relationship at a time.

Backstory: A natural Segway ... (The Christian Science Monitor) - The two-wheeled transporters are making inroads into everyday life - from fishing trips to weddings.

Oregon Court Overturns $150 Million Altria Verdict (Update5) (Bloomberg.com) - May 17 (Bloomberg) -- An Oregon appeals court overturned $150 million in punitive damages against Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA unit and sent the case back to a lower court for a new trial to determine the amount of the award.