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In your face

By Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, December 1, 1999

Whether he's nuking a safety blitz, gunning down a PlayStation enemy or merely taking a Friday morning walk across campus, Major Applewhite always seems to have a smug grin on his face, the cocksure kind of look a poker-playing teen might get after being dealt a royal flush. He knows people are constantly sizing him up, from his narrow shoulders to his mini-biceps to his celery-stick legs. He knows what they're thinking: that he looks more like the leader of the Young Republicans than the leader ...

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