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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilmingtonians rarely discuss such issues, which is why Ruth Dooley has heard only vague mentions of "racial problems." Because if Wilmington isn't quite so safe as the Dooleys had hoped, it isn't quite so open and welcoming as they had imagined either. In their first two years in town, says Mike, strangers waved from passing cars, and everyone seemed to know everyone else, "but we were on the outside looking in. People were outwardly friendly, but that was like a mask. 'Hello, how you doing? Come over anytime.' Slam--here comes the door." Some of their neighbors simply...
...Louis. They lived in a series of crowded subdivisions where Leslie raised three kids. In 1989 she read a magazine article about a couple that ran a bed and breakfast. "I told Rick, 'This is what I want to do.' And in 10 years of marriage, he'd never heard me say that...
Once Legare and De Vries spoke up, however, administrators responded. Legare persuaded 34 of Cabot High's 100 students to sign his petition, which led to faculty meetings and his discussion with Governor Dean in a gathering with other gay youths. Since school started, Legare says, he has heard "faggot" just once. Similarly, even at the Catholic school De Vries used to attend, several teachers applauded her for fighting antigay attitudes. She's now enrolled at a private school where everyone knows she's a lesbian...
Years ago, you only heard about a large company like General Electric going into the international marketplace," says Roma Malkani. "But now I can stand up against a Lockheed Martin. [Foreign buyers] are looking for niche companies like...
...seems to me that Nicole Contos' aborted wedding represents a minor but vivid defining moment in the battle between the sexes. Women who heard about the case--and after a while last week it was hard not to hear about it--tended to go atavistic, as Katie Couric did. A couple of women lawyers I informally consulted misplaced for the moment their respect for due process; they agreed with Couric, drew a sharp, gleaming knife and applied it mentally to a target just south of the groom's waistline. If he doesn't like it, let the bastard go sing...