As one of the nuns often reminded my mother during her years in Catholic high school, it is just as easy to marry a rich man as it is to marry a poor man.
Meanwhile the erosion continues, and the villages downstream suffer from floods which owe as much to the hand of man as to nature.
It was the first time the brothers have competed in the same final of a major championship, Kevin as underdog and Jonathan as the man to beat after running the fastest time in the earlier rounds and breaking the Belgian record in the process.
Home and away victories over IFK Gothenburg, followed by an 8-3 aggregate win over Gretna, led the Pars - currently bottom of the Scottish Premier League - to see Kenny as the man to revive their fortunes.
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In line with a vow he had made to himself as a young man to remain inscrutable to all but his most intimate friends, he cultivated a cold, haughty manner in public and refused to countenance any questions about his often decisive role in the family business.
In Hawaii as a young man, he chose to grow into his identity as a black man.
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Clearly many of Mr Meacher's supporters were not as happy to switch to Mr McDonnell as the man himself was, and the chance of him getting 45 Labour MPs to back him by the Thursday 1230 BST deadline faded.
It had all looked so promising on Monday for those who might want a contest when former minister Michael Meacher stepped aside and called on his supporters to back Campaign Group leader John McDonnell as the man to challenge Mr Brown for the leadership.
It is a function of social class and occupation as to why a man's capacity to stand and deliver, as it were, is reduced as youthful Romeos are dragged by Time's relentless claws of age into the abyss of the yawning grave.
Nadal triumphed 6-1 6-1 6-1 to move within two wins of joining Bjorn Borg as the only man to win four successive Roland Garros titles.
HIV-positive, a man is twice as likely to infect a woman as a woman is a man.
As an elected public servant, he earned the respect of colleagues in both parties as a man to follow when there is a tough call to make.
The American negotiators obligingly traveled to Beijing, where Jiang kept a dignified distance from the talks, sending Zhu in as his point man to thrash out the details.
"I played about as well as a man can play to shoot four over par, " said Howell.
"Pride of ownership" was a favorite phrase of my father's, embodying an idea real as bread to a man of his background, one having to do not with social competitiveness or conspicuous consumption but with his standing as a manly provider.
The source later introduced Martinez to a man he described as his "Afghani brother" to assist in the plot, but the man was actually an FBI undercover agent.
But questions remain as to why a man accused of plotting to blow up targets in central Manchester will be tried in America.
We've had this persistent demand from the public as to why this man should be allowed to retain an honour he was given for services to banking.
They run the gambit from a man dressed as Robin the Boy Wonder, to a man with an electronic voice, to a guy in fatigues with a gray beard named Bin Laden.
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It took awhile for Robinson as a young man to understand what that faith in God meant.
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Instead, Mr Fox, a former Coca-Cola manager, portrays himself as the man to end a corrupt system.
British actor Daniel Day-Lewis has made Oscars history as the first man to win three best actor awards.
In selling himself as the best man to lead America out of recession, Mr McCain faces two huge challenges.
Mr. Sharif, who heads the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, is seen as the man to beat in the coming polls.
Fawkes was discovered and promptly executed, but he is remembered in typically dry English humor as the last man to enter parliament with good intentions.
He was perhaps best known as the straight man to Cher on "The Sonny and Cher Show" on CBS-TV in the early 1970s.
Hemsley said he drew on his experiences as a young man to develop Jefferson's celebrated strut, which he did during filming as a joke.
The Argentine pontiff underwent surgery as a young man to remove "a good part" of an infected lung, according to his authorized biographer, Sergio Rubin.
But starting your Test career with a bang is no guarantee of continuing in similar fashion, as the first man to do so would attest.
The communists form the largest bloc in parliament, and their leader, Gennady Zyuganov, is widely touted as the man to beat in the June 16 presidential elections.
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