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...NCAA men's tennis. It seemed solid from top to bottom, returning number-one singles player Marshall Burroughs and a host of young upstarts. The team only seemed to corroborate those expectations at the outset: it breezed through the ECAC championships and disposed of fifteenth-ranked Texas Christian and ninth-ranked Louisiana State at the national indoor championships in early spring...
...federal appeals court ruled the armed forces can't bar homosexuals based solely on their statements that they are gay -- a move that could chip away at the Clinton Administration's ostrich-like "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's reinstatement of Petty Officer Keith Meinhold, who had been denied re-enlistment after disclosing his homosexuality on television.Instead, only a statement that shows a "concrete, fixed or expressed desire to engage in homosexual acts despite their being prohibited" should be grounds for involuntary discharge. The ruling stopped short...
Texas Ranger left-hander Kenny Rogers retired 27 straight batters to pitch the 12th perfect game in baseball history. With the help of a spectacular diving catch by outfielder Rusty Greer in the ninth inning, Rogers' 98 pitches and eight strikeouts were enough to put his name in the history books alongside such baseball greats as Cy Young, Sandy Koufax and Catfish Hunter...
Christy Rade, who will be entering the ninth grade in West Des Moines, Iowa, is fairly typical. Before she was diagnosed with ADD in the third grade, Christy's teacher described her to her parents as a "dizzy blond and a space cadet." "Teachers used to get fed up with me," recalls Christy, who now takes Ritalin and gets some extra support from her teachers. "Everyone thought I was purposely not paying attention." According to her mother Julie Doy, people at Christy's school were familiar with hyperactivity but not ADD. "She didn't have behavior problems...
...ninth floor of the Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building, a sometime actor finds himself trapped in the public's impression of him, but this time the typecasting can only help his case. The prosecution has a lot going for it -- a realistic set, a good supporting cast complete with a couch potato who times his life by reruns of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, waiters with ponytails and exotic accents, a lost dog and two grieving families. Still, persuading a juror who doubts that O.J. Simpson could be a monster capable of buying a 15- in. stiletto (requesting that...