Word: marche
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...years old, found himself last week in the back bedroom of his grandmother's house in Rasharkin, dazedly watching over three small white coffins holding all that remained of his three younger brothers? They burned to death when Protestant thugs, angered by a ban on the Orange Order's march down Drumcree's Garvaghy Road, tossed a fire bomb through the window of the Catholic family's home in a mostly Protestant housing development in the town of Ballymoney. Lee was saved because he had been spending the night with his grandmother. "It's hot in here," he murmured...
Their relationship had become less closeted in the months before Diana's death last August. But in the wake of that tragedy, the woman Diana once deemed "the Rottweiler" again retreated from view. By March, however, tabloids had got wind that Parker Bowles was spending nights at St. James's as well as the Queen's Sandringham estate. More recently, Parker Bowles has begun to emerge on the social scene. Just a few weeks ago, she attended a gathering thrown by Charles for prominent members of the Greek community at his country place, Highgrove. Last month she turned...
...statutes in at least 17 states allowing transsexuals to change the sex designation on their birth certificate, which means their driver's license and passport can reflect reality. (One unintended consequence: legal marriages between people who have become the same sex.) In Missouri, the house judiciary committee met in March to discuss the state's first civil rights bill to include "sexual orientation"--defined to include gender "self-image or identity." Illinois and Pennsylvania considered similar bills. None passed, but "we were happy to get the issue out there," says activist Ware...
...presence, Gender PAC. It sponsored its third Lobby Day on Capitol Hill in April, when more than 100 transgenders met members of Congress. A state-focused group called It's Time America! has chapters in half the states. And of course, transgenders are talking about staging a march on Washington--de rigueur for any minority going mainstream...
...Philip Sousa, whose talent and flair put the band on the American map beginning in 1880 and also planted a band culture all across the country. Every town of any significance had to have a band with a bandstand in the park. The first order was patriotism. Sousa's march Stars and Stripes Forever became (and remains) the most recorded piece of music in history. But the bearded Sousa also infused the classics into every River City he hit in his wide tours with the Marines and later with his own band. Music from Wagner's opera Parsifal was heard...