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Harvard entered the national spotlight in 1993 when it began a big-city-style crackdown on teenage gang members that raised eyebrows. The town passed an ordinance making it illegal to wear "colors, emblems or insignia" indicating gang membership or sympathies. The symbols included such articles as a star of David, a Dallas Cowboys jacket and a Georgetown baseball...
...looks like the Old Testament version of God as track coach. "Let me see it," Hart says to Johnson as the runner takes the track in his new U.S.A. unitard. "What do you think of it?" Johnson asks Hart. "Well," says the coach, "I think the U.S.A. insignia is too subtle and the Nike swoosh is too bright. But that's the point, I guess." Just then another of Hart's runners, Marlon Ramsey, walks by. "Look, it's Superman," Ramsey says to Johnson, one of his probable partners on the U.S. 4 x 400-m relay team in Atlanta...
Judy A. McGrail, a manager in the Harvard Coop, said that while she didn't notice a large increase in total sales, sales of Harvard insignia items were unusually high...
...following last weekend's Daytona 500 opener, this year's success promises to be even bigger. New speedways are under construction in Southern California and Texas, and this fall NASCAR races will be held in Suzuka, Japan. The first NASCAR Thunder retail outlet, a store that will feature NASCAR insignia clothing, souvenirs and artwork, will open in Atlanta in April. As early as September, the first NASCAR Cafe, a theme restaurant, will start serving in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. By 1998 the association hopes to lift its sales of trinkets, clothing and other memorabilia to a startling $1 billion...
WUERZBURG, GERMANY: Army medic Michael New was discharged for refusing to wear U.N. insignia on a peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. In a case that had captured the imagination of conservatives who opposed putting U.S. forces under U.N. command, New had argued that he had not taken any oath to serve under U.N. commanders. But the court said that New should be discharged because he refused to carry out a lawful order from his U.S. military commanders. "The bottom line for the military is that you can not pick and chose your orders," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...