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...competition doesn't get any easier closer to home. Besides Harvard, five other Ivy League teams rank in the national top 15: Princeton at fourth, Dartmouth at eighth, Yale at thirteenth. Brown at fourteenth, and Cornell at fifteenth...
...claims "a vast gay subculture has emerged within the military," complete with gay Marines in the White House honor guard. An advance excerpt: "At least one gay man has served in the astronaut program . . . The Navy and the Marine Corps had at least one gay person at four-star rank since 1981, and at least one gay man has served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that time...
Even as he railed against gays as "sexual deviants," Hoover apparently struggled with his own homosexuality. Summers offers fresh details of Hoover's 40-year friendship with Clyde Tolson, a handsome young agent he plucked out of the rank and file and quickly promoted to assistant director. The pair ate dinner together almost every night and vacationed together every year; Summers contends that Luisa Stuart, a former fashion model, once saw them holding hands in the back seat of a limo. According to Summers, the Mafia claimed to have the goods on Edgar and Clyde, including compromising photographs...
...protean figures responsible for the integration of sports in America, Ashe stood in the first rank. Jesse Owens proved that white men do not run faster or jump farther than blacks. Jackie Robinson disproved with a fiery passion that whites have a stronger desire to win. Muhammad Ali demonstrated in the ring that speed and power were only the obvious ways in which a black athlete could be agile and courageous. There have been other pathfinders: decathlete Milt Campbell, golfer Charlie Sifford, and in Ashe's own sport the lithe and graceful Althea Gibson...
...Colorado, where environmental concerns rank right up there with ski fever, a company called ReeSki is mining profits from discarded non-biodegradable skis: Adirondack-style chairs