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...staters. In Australia, Prime Minister John Howard asked Parliament to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The discussion in France reaches a milestone this Saturday when Green Party leader Noël Mamère, in his capacity as mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Bègles, will kick off the June season with France's first gay wedding by marrying Bertrand Charpentier, 31, a nurse's aide, and Stéphane Chapin, 33, a warehouse worker...
Berg embarked on his first trip to Baghdad in December. Friends say he assumed he could find work the same way he had launched his tower-repair shop in a Philadelphia suburb: by cold-calling potential clients and sweet-talking his way into assignments. He came home in February to West Chester, Pa., with some promising leads as well as rich tales of his adventures in the war-scarred land. "He had a comfort level in Iraq that is beyond our comprehension," says colleague Dave Skalish, a technical supervisor at a Philadelphia radio station...
Among the Brown localities, Delaware was the most welcoming to the notion of integration, at least in legal terms. Black parents in the suburb of Claymont in 1951 wanted their children to attend the school that was closest to their home--much as Smith says he wants for his children now--but that was a white school. Unlike in the other Brown cases, the state court ruled in favor of the black families, and it was the state board of education that appealed...
...process gets, the East has its voice - and won't lose it again. - By James Graff Haunted House BELGIUM In a case that has transfixed the nation, the trial of admitted child rapist and alleged child murderer Marc Dutroux convened for a day at his house in Marcinelle, a suburb of Charleroi. His two surviving victims...
...soon as we win this war, said Rosie the Riveter, the phallocracy’s going to send me right back to my Donna Reed suburb to make sure there’s a job waiting for every returning...