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...University, California - without Norman's figure on the second-place dais, which someone had decided would be a good place to deliver speeches and pose for photos. "If [Smith or Carlos] had said, 'Hang on a second, you're missing Peter,' it wouldn't have happened," Norman says. "They knew about this statue . . . I found it humiliating...
...Norman couldn't see Smith and Carlos during the presentations but knew they'd executed the salute from the silence that fell over the stadium. His support for them continued in front of the media afterward, and right up to his sudden death, aged 64, in 2006. If a trifle amateurish in style, Salute works as a fascinating dissection of a morally complex episode. Smith and Carlos acknowledge that while they had each other as a "shield," there was no one to protect Norman, who paid for his actions. Though a likely 200-m finalist at the Munich Games four...
...that was the most important part. When I knew that we could get 11 guys on offense and 11 guys on defense then we could play a game. We could do everything in the video game that is done in the regular game. But until we could get to that we couldn?t do it. So it took three years just to get there...
...think that is so good for football, because if we ever got to the point where we knew what was going to happen, and it happened all the time, we wouldn?t have to play the game. And the fact that we don?t know what?s going to happen-and it was proven and it was proven in the biggest game of the year-I think just stamps this game as the great game that...
...also mentions the results of a Zogby poll conducted for the Palm Center in 2006. That poll, which surveyed 545 military personnel who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, found that only 37% of the respondents opposed openly gay military service. More important, of the 125 survey respondents who knew for sure that at least one person in their unit was gay or lesbian, 64% said it had "no impact" on the unit's morale. Three-quarters of the total sample said they were "comfortable" in the presence of gays and lesbians. One assumes that, despite Senator Nunn's fears...