What started as a marriage of convenience, endured seemingly no less happily than many conventional unions.

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Less happily, religious leaders may have swayed some voters against Ms Rousseff, who once backed abortion rights.

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Given half an excuse, he would happily seek an alternative coalition with the Christian Democrats or, rather less happily, with Germany's liberals, the Free Democrats.

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We don't usually think of "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee as an effects filmmaker, but he gave us the romantic swordplay above swaying bamboo forests in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and, less happily, "Hulk" bouncing across the desert like a rubber ball.

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And Mr Hatch, for all his conservative bona fides (he has introduced bills in the Senate to amend the constitution to require balanced budgets four times over the years), worked happily with no less a leftie than Edward Kennedy to bring in children's health insurance and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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When he later related this war story to friends, some said they would have happily lent him money on less onerous terms.

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And, of course, many working women are indeed happily and fruitfully married--it's just that they are less likely to be so than nonworking women.

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And happily for Chinese-American relations, the mood in Congress is indeed noticeably less militant than in 1993.

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Haltzman, who wrote the book "Happily Married Women: How to Get More Out of Your Relationship by Doing Less, " says women suffer when they try to juggle career and parenthood.

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