Justin Fashanu for "BBC Radio 1". Fashanu was the subject of an early internet meme in 1996 when the BBC opened their poll for the Sports Personality of the Year award to e-mail votes for the first time. An online campaign was organised among students in an attempt to enable him to win the title, but his votes were excluded from the final tally by the show's production team. In March 1998, a seventeen-year-old claimed to police that he had been sexually assaulted by Fashanu after a night of drinking. Homosexual acts were illegal in the US state of Maryland at the
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold Ever Published". "Vanity Fair" called it "the greatest literary-nonfiction story of the 20th century". Talese had spent the first ten years of his career at "The New York Times". He felt restricted by the limitations of newspaper writing and began searching for jobs with magazines. In 1965, he signed a one-year, six-story contract with "Esquire" magazine. His first assignment from "Esquire" editor Harold Hayes was to write a profile of Frank Sinatra. It was a difficult assignment; Sinatra had turned down interview requests from "Esquire" for years. Sinatra was about to turn 50 and in the spotlight. Sinatra's relationship with