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...asked how he could retain a high-ranking aide who is allegedly gay while forcing the dismissal of many homosexuals from the uniformed services, Cheney invoked a confusing double standard. Gays, he explained, could serve in civilian jobs, where they would not necessarily pose a security risk. Yet a closet homosexual with access to & classified information would surely be more vulnerable to blackmail than a lowly enlisted...
...double life. The submarine corps is highly educated, he notes, "and that seems to fight the ignorance." Of the 160 men on his boat, Gwynn suspects that at least five were known to be gay. But he felt that he was safe from being forced out of the closet. "It's different for officers -- you're one of the boys, and ((the officers)) can't deny that they liked you. The sub is less anonymous and more like a club. As long as they weren't told, it didn't become an ugly incident...
When police entered Apartment 213 last week, they were shocked to find a freezer covered with Polaroid photographs of mutilated men. Inside they discovered two severed heads and one more stashed in the refrigerator. A closet and filing cabinet yielded more human skulls and a kettle containing what are thought to be decomposing hands and a male genital organ. Various body parts were strewn around the apartment, as were bottles of acid and chemical preservatives...
...White House office, like Gates, is compact and strategically located. Little larger than a broom closet, it flanks the West Wing entrance just across the lobby from the Oval Office. It is stuffed with color-coded folders marked SECRET, photos of Gates' family on backpacking trips, a Dictaphone, a big secure telephone and a regular White House phone console that often erupts with a steady, insistent ring. "Yes, sir," Gates answers. "Yes, Mr. President . . . I'll get right...
...joined the company as employees were betting on a leviathan, a creature so big it couldn't be threatened. The answer is that while no killer shark is out there attacking this whale, thousands of relentless barracuda are taking bites out of it. Once the pre-eminent force in closet-size mainframe computers, IBM has watched its share of the world market dwindle from nearly 80% to 69%, as rivals like Japan's Fujitsu and Germany's Siemens score large gains with more powerful and less expensive machines. Its once commanding lead in personal computers has shriveled from...