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<p>A Hawaii woman’s last name is a real mouthful, containing 36 letters and 19 syllables in all. And it’s so long that she couldn’t get a driver’s license with her correct name.</p> <p>The documents only have room for 35 characters, so Hawaii County instead issued her driver’s license and her state ID with the last letter of her name chopped off. And it omitted her first name.</p>

I am trying to think of a good name for a dog, just acquired from the pound. He's been neutered, seems to be a bit less than one year old. He's part blue heeler and part black lab with ears that do not seem to be of either of those two breeds. He's joining the alpha male guard dog and the little mama dog who are both getting up there in years. If anyone has any good suggestions for naming him, I'd appreciate it.

Current law makes it easy only for women -- when they marry-- Sacramento -- When Kinna Patel and Ashle Crocker exchanged their vows and registered as domestic partners in September, the lesbian couple also decided to have the same last name for their new family. Patel, who wanted to change her last name to Crocker, had to jump through a series of legal hoops, take out a newspaper ad announcing the pending change of her name, and pay hundreds of dollars in fees to legally become Kinna Crocker. "And it's a good thing I'm an attorney. If I had to...

Rodney Harder and Tony Gray Rodney D. Harder and Ray B. Gray Jr., artists and art teachers in New York, celebrated their partnership yesterday. The Rev. David A. Murphy, a priest of the American Catholic Church in the United States, led the ceremony at the couple's home in Cooks Falls, N.Y. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/fashion/weddings/26hard.html http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/fashion/weddings/26DAWS.html?pagewanted=all John Daws and Lance Erickson John Thomas Daws, the son of Fay Tomlinson Daws of Dillon, S.C., and the late John T. Daws, is to celebrate his partnership today with Lance Michael Erickson, the son of Joan Tracey Erickson and Granville Erickson of Brooklyn Heights. The Rev....