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...Firebird--a giant shadow puppet spectacle based on Stravinsky's ballet suite, presented by the Underground Railway Theater. In the Arlington Center for the Arts in the former Gibbs Junior High School at 41 Foster St., Arlington, one block off Mass. Ave. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 12 and 13, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1 and 3 p.m. Tickets are $6, and are available by calling...
...didn't take long for Catherine Broderick to discover that working at the Arlington, Va., regional office of the Securities and Exchange Commission was not much fun. After Broderick's arrival in 1979, a top administrator got drunk at an office party, untied her sweater and kissed her. That was nothing unusual: a female junior attorney and two female secretaries were openly having affairs with their male superiors. When Broderick rejected advances of a similar nature, she began receiving negative performance reviews and was threatened with dismissal. "I did not participate or condone it, and that stymied my career...
...sexually "hostile work environment" harmed Broderick's emotional and professional well-being. She was awarded $128,000 in back pay and given a promotion, and she continues to work for the SEC. Although no disciplinary action was taken against her former bosses, the agency has since closed the Arlington office. The ordeal has given Catherine Broderick a special compassion for other victims of sexual harassment. "Everyone questions why Anita Hill didn't file suit," she says. "I didn't file suit until I was forced into it when they tried to fire...
When Fiona McConnell, 24, came to the U.S. from Ireland five years ago, she had a one-year visa. Now she is an illegal alien, working as a nanny in New York City. Which is why she plans to travel this week to Arlington, Va., to mail her application for one of the visa slots set aside for Irish nationals under the new law. If she gets a green card, McConnell says, "I could go to school or get a better job." Given her present status, McConnell does not have health insurance. In an emergency she would have to depend...
These visas will be distributed by an unusual method: the winners will be the first 40,000 qualifying people whose applications are received after midnight on Oct. 14 at a post-office box in Arlington, Va. Immigrants and their lawyers are converging on Arlington to dump thousands of applications directly at the post office. About 40% of the slots are reserved for people from Ireland, which reflects not only the clout of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy but also recognition of the problem posed by the presence of as many as 100,000 illegal Irish immigrants...