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...event that was forced upon the 154-year-old military college by a June Supreme Court ruling that declared the all-male admission policy at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute unconstitutional. The battle against coeducation--which began in earnest in 1993 when the state-supported Citadel mistakenly accepted Shannon Faulkner, thinking she was male--was waged so fiercely, and with such ill will, that when an out-of-sorts and out-of-shape Faulkner withdrew a year ago after less than a week, the victorious whooping of the other cadets was shown on national television. And even last week...
...Reported by Elaine Rivera/Long Island and Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington...
...Reported by Adam Cohen/Atlanta and Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington
...rock stars, it has been an all too popular way. The music industry has been rocked, in the past few years, by the drug-related deaths of Nirvana's Cobain and Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, and more recently Blind Melon's front man Shannon Hoon and Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin. As for Nowell, his bandmates say they tried to help him. Recalls Wilson: "If you tried to talk to him about it, he would get mad. He thought he was invincible. When someone would die, other artists, he'd just go, 'O.K., they're stupid, they shot too much...
Kerri Strug was known as the quiet member of the U.S. gymnastics team, overshadowed by media darlings like five-time Olympic medal winner Shannon Miller and 14-year-old phenom Dominique Moceanu. Strug, 18, is the sensitive one, the worrier, the one most attuned to the feelings of her teammates. She remembers birthdays and sends notes. When Amanda Borden was going through physical problems, it was Strug who perked her up by sending cards. She's a team player...