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...Elis sacked Champi on the next play, but with three seconds remaining and eight yards between Harvard and history, Champi floated the ball to tailback Vic Gatto in the left corner of the endzone for the score...
...seeming eternity, Champi danced behind the line of scrimmage unable to find an open receiver, but finally drilled a shot to Harvard captain Vic Gatto '69 to bring the team within two points, time having expired. On the final play, Champi defied all laws of probability and again drilled a perfect pass to tight end Pete Varney in the Harvard endzone, culminating one of the most improbable comebacks in all sports history. The next day the banner headline in The Crimson screamed, "Harvard Beats Yale...
Many of the officers in Gatto's environmental unit have left the department in disgust, and they told me that the city's persecution campaign was the reason. Gatto fights on with an anemic detail of three green recruits, ever hoping for the day when the city government cares as much about clean water as he does. He is suing the city for harassment and intimidation...
Unfortunately Captain Gatto is not alone. From Florida to Alaska, federal and state environmental-enforcement officials spend as much time fighting their employers as they do pursuing polluters. But they are gaining strength by banding together. In 1992 a group of environmental enforcers organized the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility to protect environmental heroes like Ron Gatto from intimidation by polluters or by their bosses. Today PEER, based in Washington, has 10,000 members, mostly from various state, federal and local environmental-enforcement agencies. They're fighting for the idea that courage under fire should not get you fired...
Kennedy, president of the Water Keeper Alliance, has long been Ron Gatto's ally in the fight to protect New York City's water supply