If NFL players do come out as gay, that should push any youth coach with a narrow definition to open his (or her) mind to the possibility that there is more than one path to be a tough, male athlete.

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He likes to say that the only time a physicist and a brain surgeon meet is when the physicist is about to be cut open and to his mind that made no sense.

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This was how it was when his mind turned to high open windows or unlocked rooftop fire doors or breaks in the chain-link fences lining bridge walkways.

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New Zealand Judge David McNaughton said that whether bail would be granted "remained an open question in his mind" and added that he needs more time to review submissions at the hastily arranged hearing in Auckland.

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He was open to ideas and argument--you could change his mind with a well-reasoned case.

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But that leaves open the question of why any person in his or her right mind would allow a failure to communicate to occur in the first place.

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Harrington insisted he is in a different frame of mind to when he played those Valhalla matches, which followed his wins in the 2008 Open and USPGA Championship.

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