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Devotion to sports on any level undermines humanity. George Orwell said it best: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." VINCENT GUGLIUZZA Towson, Md...
DIED. STANLEY TRETICK, 77, photojournalist who captured the iconic image of an almost-three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. peeking out from underneath his father's Oval Office desk in 1963; after several strokes, three days after the death of his famous subject, John Jr.; in Gaithersburg, Md...
...Cruise and Nicole Kidman cover [CINEMA, July 5]. Be not dismayed by the flood of letters you get that will berate you as a purveyor of pornography. People who abhor the sight of beautiful human bodies are possessed by either a dirty mind or envy. GEORGE ZINNEMANN Annapolis, Md...
...noted precautions to be taken against infections in those who "can't resist a naval ring" [Personal Time: Your Health, June 21]. Isn't a naval ring something worn only by Annapolis graduates? Guess you meant navel. Ah, for a spell checker that warns about homophones! LARRY STOOKEY Rockville, Md...
That is no surprise to Aaron McGruder, the 25-year-old African American who created The Boondocks for his student newspaper at the University of Maryland. The strip, he says, "requires people to go outside their comfort zone." Born in Chicago, McGruder grew up in Columbia, Md., where he dealt with "the intimidation of being one of two or three black faces in a sea of faces that don't look like you." He still works out of his bedroom in his parents' split-level ranch house, his collection of Star Wars toys strewn about. Besides "an addiction...