With her career as a top lawyer, a judge and state governor she would seem to have removed most obstacles to women's progress in a previously male-run world.

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Christie Hefner was expected to run a male-dominated, public company while still meeting the expectations of the primary shareholder and company founder, her father.

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The Kentucky Derby is just about a week away, and for months, the sport has focused obsessively on the three-year-old male horses that will run at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May, in the event often referred to as the only horse race most Americans care about.

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Corey, you know, to me, I love K-dub, but this sounds like classic white male indignation, you know, run amok, and that if he tries this when he goes to see - I don't know - if he goes to see "Iron Man 3" and he tries this, it's going to be a whole different set of circumstances.

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But whenever male hair is at issue, emotions run sky-high on both sides.

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Safely assuming that any pay-for-play plan would include paying male football and basketball players, you run into huge issues with federal law.

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When I was a kid following the Olympics for the first time in 1960, America's best male sprinter, Ray Norton, had a disastrous run of misfortune.

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Many female soldiers run as great a risk of being shot as their male comrades.

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Galen Rupp, the top American male distance runner, has convinced himself he has an outside shot at a medal, but 12 Kenyans have run faster times in the 10, 000 this year.

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