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...secret transvestite. I was named after my grandmother--who was named after F. Marion Crawford, her sisters' favorite (male) author. To be honest, though, it's not really an issue. Despite trusty Ann and my name's origin, the fact is that in 1993, "Marion" of whatever spelling nearly always denotes a woman...
...Germans brought culture in varied forms, from singing groups to vineyards to poetry societies. Some German railway workers could recite Homer in Greek. More pioneering than the Irish, they helped develop America's hinterland, from Ohio to Texas. (In 1900, 1 out of 3 Texans was German in origin.) The town of Hermann, Missouri, still known for its wines, was typical: when laid out in 1837, streets were named for Schiller, Gutenberg, Goethe and Mozart...
...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...
...they often find, though, is hardship, privation, loneliness and exploitation. Although afforded some protection under American labor and civil rights laws, most illegals live in a shadow world of piecework and day jobs, just one step ahead of the INS and an unwanted ticket home. Whatever their country of origin, however, each illegal comes seeking the same thing: the good life in the good land...
...jubilant about the decision. Said Helen Neuborne, executive director of the NOW Legal Defense Fund: "We are thrilled with the court's strong message that when women suffer sexual harassment, they will be treated exactly the same as any other group discriminated against based on race, religion or national origin." Employers, many of whom have already begun to police their workplaces, for the most part supported the court's decision. Said Stephen Bokat, general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "This is a very reasonable decision. It is really relatively easy under current law for an employer to preclude...