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...hitting .387 as of Saturday. They have a new hero in center fielder Carl Everett, picked up in the off-season and now hitting .329, with 22 homers and 63 runs batted in. They have budding stars in right fielder Trot Nixon and catcher Jason Varitek and a dominating ninth-inning pitcher in Derek Lowe, who has saved 16 games...
...celebrities. Following Multi-Millionaire's Darva Conger and Rick Rockwell, there's now Stacey Stillman, 27, Survivor's cranky attorney ("I never realized how annoyed I looked," she says. "I was hungry"). There's Julie (last name withheld for security reasons), 20, the Mormon naif in the just-premiered ninth season of MTV's The Real World, in which this year's crew of twentysomethings find romance and hurt feelings while sharing a New Orleans mansion. There's Joyce Bowler, 44, who persuaded her family to spend three hardship-filled months in a house outfitted with 100-year-old technology...
...white beatnik, meet the alcoholic. (This year's gay guy, before coming out to his housemates, coyly announced he had "a secret," and regular viewers who had witnessed previous coming outs knew in a split second what it would be. If you use that line by the show's ninth season, you'd better have a severed head in your luggage.) But that casting has also proved genuinely worthwhile. Pedro Zamora explicitly used his stint on the series' third season to raise awareness of AIDS, which claimed his life shortly after the show aired. "He was the only one doing...
...ninth grade, I had a crush on my high school's entire senior class. The seniors I knew were so much that I was not--tall, cool, college-bound, unconcerned with the tormenting intricacies of my school's social geography. In my wide eyes they looked like heroes. But when I became a senior myself I smiled at my youthful enthusiasm. From the top of the mountain that had seemed so towering from below, the view was the same as ever...
...openly gay activist, a scholar and an increasingly independent person. That summer I had traveled to Europe with my friends, had navigated foreign train stations and surly hostelkeepers with aplomb. But as soon as I arrived at Harvard, I met Dave and Andre, and I was humbled like the ninth grader I had been. I had met Dave online that in-between summer. The instant I decided to go to Harvard I added that fact to my AOL profile, and he sent me a congratulatory note, having searched "Harvard" and "gay" and found a new name. He offered to show...