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...cargo ships and marching -- often with their country's flag carried aloft -- to railway depots where trains would take them upriver to Buffalo, along the Erie Canal and thence to the prairie country of the upper Mississippi valley. "What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become!" wrote Frederika Bremer in 1853, and she was right. Today about 400 place names in Minnesota are of Scandinavian origin...
...soul. I'm a born-again Christian. I love everybody; I don't hate anybody. I even pray to the Heavenly Father for the fellow that shot me to ask forgiveness of his sins, because I have forgiven him. (During his 1972 presidential bid, Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer, which left him paralyzed from the waist down.) I don't feel bitter toward him. I would have wasted myself away if I had been hating all these years. I don't hate...
...someone else was flipping through her movie family album. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan and subsequently professed his love for Foster -- or, really, for Iris in Taxi Driver. (The film was based in part on the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace.) Hinckley won the prize any deranged, unrequited lover seeks: he would be forever linked with his unknowing inamorata...
That Lynn Bremer is an attorney with a good job was not enough to keep her from developing a cocaine habit. The fact that she was pregnant was not enough to make her drop it. So when her daughter tested positive at birth for the presence of drugs in her urine, health officials in Muskegon County, Mich., took the child into temporary custody. But, to Bremer's astonishment, there was more. The county prosecutor stepped in to charge her with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child. The means of delivery? Her umbilical cord...
...After Bremer completed a drug treatment program, she regained her daughter, who is apparently healthy. But the criminal charges remain. "I could lose her," says Bremer. "I could go to prison, and she could grow up with who knows who." Prosecutor Tony Tague is unmoved. He says the threat of prison is sometimes the only way to get pregnant addicts to seek treatment: "Someone must stand up for the rights of the children...