VOLUNTARI, Romania — Engines grumbling in the Balkan twilight, giant semis roll past the truck stop and its overflow of wedding guests. Gears grind as the trucks leave the highway ramp and head ...
It's a Gypsy wedding, and the 15-year-old bride is mourning shattered dreams of studying medicine as she steels herself for a life more Middle Ages than Modern Times. A schoolgirl just weeks ago, she ...