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...women, it is one of the toughest to obey. But rarely has the rule been breached as flagrantly as in a case revealed last week: a sexual encounter between a male and a female cadet, conducted under the watchful eyes of six male classmates hiding in a dorm closet. The romp landed the woman, who became distraught upon learning how public the performance had been, in a military hospital following an accidental overdose of pain relievers...
Five of the cadets involved in the episode have resigned, and action is pending against the remaining three, including the woman. Says academy spokesman Lieut. Colonel Greg Dziuban: "The cadets were there to help their friend break off his relationship. They were going to jump out of the closet, but somehow things got going too quickly. Everyone was clearly aware of the prohibition against sex in the dormitory...
...days when very few came out of the closet, and when heavily masculine types applied brutally obscene epithets to presumed homosexuals, gentler but still condescending terms like the quasi-official title chosen by male homosexuals themselves I cannot imagine. In this country and England one of its meanings was "an agressively forward or impertinent manner...
...children of Marxist-Leninist teachings really a bunch of closet capitalists? Perhaps. According to the report released last week by a team of U.S. and Soviet scholars, citizens in the Soviet Union seem fully prepared to embrace -- in theory, anyway -- the free-enterprise system...
...service spottier. The food may be microwaved mediocrity. In the aging coaches, the decor runs to implausible orange and tepid yellows, the odor is museum quality. A $274 sleeping compartment on Amtrak's Cardinal, from Chicago to New York, manages ingeniously -- and torturously -- to cram sink, toilet, passenger seat, closet, water cooler, trash can, storage compartment and shoe locker into a space about...