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PARRIS ISLAND, S.C.: He'll always have Parris. Just three days into his Marine boot camp training, Riddick Bowe is dropping out. "It was just that he couldn't handle the regimented training lifestyle," said Master Sgt. Chuck Demar. "He's been released at his own request." Demar said one of Bowe's family members picked him up and they left the island at 12:40 p.m. Although a recruit can ask to be dismissed at any time, the first days of Marine boot camp are hardly the most grueling even though they begin at 5:30 a.m. and involve...
...Richard Demar is a pedestrian's nightmare. Dressed in torn jeans and a partly shredded brown parka, he zigzags down a crowded sidewalk near Seattle's popular Pike Place Market. One hand clenched in a fist, the other clutching a Styrofoam cup, Demar, 32, looks fierce and menacing as he stumbles along, working the crowd. "Got some change, man?" he half demands of an elderly gentleman who promptly escapes into a store. Farther down the block, he fixes his glassy gaze on a well-dressed woman toting a shopping bag brimming with gifts. "Come...
...ranks of the nation's homeless continue to swell, pushy panhandlers like Demar are indeed attracting attention. No longer simply an unpleasant reminder of society's failures, beggars are feared as a potential danger, particularly in a holiday season, when city streets are filled with shoppers and tourists. "There is no contradiction between feeling sad because you don't know how to help and being frightened because one of the people asking for help may hit you on the head," says Michael Zeik, 64, who runs a gauntlet of beggars at New York City's Grand Central Terminal...
...effect on the dreamers. This was put to a dreamer, Washington Post Columnist Colman McCarthy, who writes better than he runs, but has finished three Boston Marathons. He mulled it over for a long moment before answering: "So many great amateurs have triumphed at Boston-Johnny Keliey, Clarence H. DeMar, Tarzan Brown-that it's hard to run there and not feel almost spiritually uplifted by the money-free aura. I know it's 99% impossible and 1% improbable that sports commercialization can be stopped. But that's why the amateur tradition of Boston needs preserving...
Rodgers' third straight victory equalled Clarence DeMar's previous record for consecutive wins. His fourth overall championship ties Gerard Cote for second place on the all-time list behind DeMar's seven first-place finishes...