Word: minerva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring home clumps of dirt. They drop by Club One to see a lip-synching, black drag queen named Lady Chablis. They head to Hannah's East to hear Emma Kelly, dubbed the "lady of 6,000 songs." They ask residents how they can track down the voodoo priestess Minerva and want directions to Mercer House, the elegant home on Monterey Square where a fatal shooting occurred. And almost invariably, they walk around with copies of "the Book...
...Georgia's first colonial settlement, Savannah has always drawn Americana-loving retirees and teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case...
...past nine years, according to court documents, John and Marie and their adult children have waged a relentless campaign of harassment against their neighbors Isidor and Minerva Ramos. They have hurled racial epithets, attacked the Ramos property and threatened bodily harm. Finally, last month, the beleaguered Ramoses filed a federal civil-rights suit demanding $10 million in damages. Instead, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Williams authorized an unprecedented settlement agreement, to be signed this week, under which the Krafts will vacate their home within 180 days. In a delicious turnabout from the normal course of events -- usually...
Three years ago, John Kraft Sr., now 70, reportedly told Isidor that if he "were not a Chicago police officer, your home would be burned." George Willard, the Krafts' son-in-law, who also lives in the house, allegedly approached Minerva Ramos two years ago with a tire iron in hand and told her, "I can't wait to grab you somewhere and beat the hell out of you." Last May Kathleen was found guilty of criminal trespass after banging on the Ramoses' garage door, apparently in an effort to set off their burglar alarm. In October, after the Ramoses...
...GRADED was one sign, now removed, in the Pentagon. By and large, the military has succeeded in impressing officers with the importance of the issue, though enlisted men are not always as enlightened. But there is one big exception, according to Linda Grant De Pauw, president of the Minerva Center, an educational facility dealing with women in the armed services. "The absolute military ban on homosexuals creates an opening for sexual harassment," she says. "Military women live in mortal fear of being called a dyke. When the man says, 'Sleep with me or I'll say you're a lesbian...