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...championship in 1978, and the horror of settling down in my office for a 1985 European championship game?only to watch Juventus fans get crushed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father on any given Sunday depend largely on how Liverpool fared the previous day. But what on earth makes this?let's admit it?pretty unsophisticated devotion to the fortunes of men I've never met and don't really want to so powerful...
...decision to drop her Italian last name (Dattilo) and take her husband's was not made lightly. ("What am I, Irish now, after 40 years?" she jokes.) Part of her wanted to carry on the name of her father, who died two years ago, and stick with the identity she had worked so hard to establish. "But I really like the idea of honoring my husband, whom I love very much," she says. "It feels like I'm celebrating a nice tradition, and it makes us more like a family unit...
...first American woman to have kept her birth name after marriage.) "If you really think that there's equality, ask him to change his name." Alternatively, says Bonpasse, look at Hillary Rodham and Teresa Heinz, who adopted the names Clinton and Kerry only during their respective husbands' gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. If a wife who doesn't take her husband's name is a political liability, Bonpasse says, it's hard to believe the fight for gender equality has come far enough...
...change their names, the fight may have gone too far. "It was drummed into me [at college] that marriage was an inherently oppressive institution and that child rearing was an insult to my talents," says Carol Holyoke, 39, who shocked her feminist friends when she took her new husband's name four years ago. "So perhaps I feel a touch of rebelliousness in shirking a doctrine that ultimately seemed oppressive to me because it was slathered on so thick." The decision to become a Holyoke, she says, was empowering. "I was adopted at 18 months, so having my name changed...
...wary of political consultants who have advised her to apply makeup, upgrade her wardrobe and update her hairstyle. "It's just my gut instinct that it's all wrong for me," she says. "It's not who I am." Rowley, who since retirement has been spending time with her husband Ross and training for five triathlons she's entered this summer, says she'll decide within the next two weeks. "What's the worst that could happen?" she asks. "I lose and get humiliated." -By Maggie Sieger