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...over both distances may be suffused with national pride, but the outstanding middle-distance athletes who have gone before El Guerrouj don't dispute the praise. "He's the best I've seen by a long way," says Sebastian Coe, now Lord Coe, who along with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram traded the mile record between 1979 and 1985. Their reign fell to Africa in 1993, when Algeria's Noureddine Morceli sheared almost 2 sec. from Cram's eight-year-old record...
...particularly exceptional performer was junior Darin Shearer. Reminiscent of a young Steve Ovett, Shearer contributed in many ways and through many distances...
Every single day, gay men and lesbians are told (either outright or by purposeful omission) that there is something wrong with them. On the same day that The New York Times presented, as Yu claimed, a "deceptive objectivity" when it covered the gay-harassment case in Ovett, Mississippi, it also excluded a very mater-of-fact news brief stating that Pope John Paul II recently affirmed homosexuality as "deviant" behavior...
...residents of Ovett have good reason to fear the preconceived notions of those who seek to judge them. Whether or not the residents' attitudes and actions are morally defensible, the mediators must strive for impartiality...
...even here the choice of words is telling. Supporters of legalized abortion are invariably described in the main-stream media as "pro-choice." Those on the other side of the issue become the enemy, the "antis"--"anti-abortion," "abortion rights foes." Similarly, people like the residents of Ovett have become the "antis" in that debate--although they would probably think of themselves as "pro-morality...