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While playing for the Washington Redskins, Kopay says, he had an ongoing affair with teammate Jerry Smith--who died of AIDS in 1986. The former heartthrob running back insists that being honest about his sexuality cost him NFL coaching jobs. He has been a buyer at Linoleum City in Hollywood for two decades...
...craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln as the photographs of him that interest the author. This fascination is typical for Trachtenberg, who is a professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University...
Harvard students must not stand idly and risk letting the anti-war movement be co-opted by these kinds of malicious conspiracy theorists. We must take a more proactive role in honestly and productively discussing the issues surrounding the Iraq war and raising awareness on campus. We need to preserve the reputation of the anti-war movement and make it clear that groups like the LaRouche Youth Movement have no place de-legitimizing true, honest discourse on our campus by handing out their conspiratorial garbage...
Lieberman's honorable, if mistaken, support for the war has curdled into demagoguery. Senator John McCain has taken a similar path, calling those who would vote for the resolution "intellectually dishonest." He suggests the "honest" path for surge opponents would be to go ahead and cut off funds for the war. But the Senators who favor Warner-Levin are pointedly opposed to immediate withdrawal from Iraq. So who's being intellectually dishonest here? It is sad to see McCain and Lieberman disgracing themselves this way. It is tempting to say, "Shame on you," and leave it at that...
...games has been a weekly affair for the past decade. Fan organizations (known as Ultras) often at the center of riots against police and opposing supporters are known to intimidate team owners into giving them preferential treatment. While some politicians initially spoke of shutting down the league, a more honest, though distasteful assessment was given by the soccer league president: "We are pained, but the show must go on," said lega president Antonio Matarrese. "Soccer must never shut down. Deaths in the soccer system unfortunately are part of this enormous [hooligan] movement...