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Upon hearing that former NBA player John Amaechi disclosed in his new book that he is gay, Shaquille O'Neal said that if he had a gay teammate, he would "protect him from outsiders." That's a revolutionary reaction compared with the crass comments that greeted NFL player David Kopay in 1975, when he became the first athlete from the four major professional U.S. sports to reveal his homosexuality. Still, the British-bred Amaechi, right, notes that most locker rooms aren't exactly gay friendly. He says some current NBA players have told him they're gay but remain terrified...
...enter the war against Hitler? Then, even with the lessons of Munich fresh in mind, we were slower than we might have been to react to Stalin's aggression in Central and Eastern Europe. We foolishly (if inadvertently) suggested early in 1950 that we might not take action to protect South Korea, inviting aggression from the North. We pursued a policy of gradual escalation in Vietnam. Still, our performance during the cold war was, on the whole, robust--in our willingness to build up our military and to use, and threaten to use, force...
...opens eighteen years after the last baby has been born, a phenomenon that coincides with—and perhaps contributes to—staunch anti-immigration sentiment, widespread violence, extensive environmental damage, and the frequent advertisement of assisted suicide drugs. Perpetually scruffy and emotionally detached, Theo is left to protect the miraculously pregnant Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey) after her first defender Julian (Julianne Moore) is killed. The rebel group of which Julian was part, The Fishes, turns out to want the baby for its own political purposes. Owen’s performance in “Closer” proved...
...trying to get Beijing to rein in pirates and counterfeiters and this may seem like just another episode in a long-running story. But it's not. Chinese papers feature a prominent story practically every other week in which a senior government official promises to take serious steps to protect intellectual property rights and prevent counterfeiting. Greg Shea, who represents a U.S. information technology association, says he has no doubt that the central government is sincere when they tell him that they want to close down the factories that pump out fake software for pennies. "They just...