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Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, also dismissed the claims. "I can give you the telephone numbers of her roommates in Berlin," he told South African news site News24. "They have already seen her naked in the showers and she has nothing to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could This Women's World Champ Be a Man? | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...Seme's suggested test may seem crude, but there's a precedent for it in the world of athletics. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in the very same stadium where Semenya won her world title, rumors swirled that 100-meter runners Stella Walsh (nicknamed "Stella the Fella") and her rival Helen Stephens were men. After Stephens took the gold metal, the Olympics committee performed a manual check on her external genitals - and concluded that she was, in fact, a woman. And prior to the 1966 European athletics championships, female competitors were made to walk in so-called nude parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could This Women's World Champ Be a Man? | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...Bags Full, by Jerome Chodorov. Seme actors need funny lines to be funny. Paul Ford needs only Paul Ford. His face is in perpetual mourning; he can bat out a laugh by not batting an eye. His body is always on the point of settling, like a house. His mind works like a stopped clock, and the time is half-past McKinley. Indeed, part of what makes him so phenomenally droll is the sense that three or four entire generations have passed him by and left his features mottled in nonplused fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dour Delight | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...uncles: "We seme to make them nervous and i am not surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the curse of st custard's | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...Angeles, a new arrival, pretty Burmese Cinemactress Win Min (The Purple Plain-TIME, March 14) Than, 21, crashed into headlines with seme Oriental slants on life likely to make U.S. husbands her most loyal fans. Said Win Min Than (a bride of a year): "Men are meant to rule and woman's main function in life is to help them on ... Men at home are much like babies and want to be looked after ... To have one's husband do a day's work outside the home and then come home and work some more-why, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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