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After a long and frequently bitter struggle, African Americans, Australian Aboriginal people, “Cape Coloureds” , and other excluded racial and ethnic groups won the right to participate in sports. After a long and somewhat less-bitter struggle, women also won the right to compete in sports—such as rugby—that had been considered quintessentially masculine. Rowing , one of the first sports to assume its modern form, began to attract a following after the first boat race between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the inauguration of the Henley Regatta . “Athletics” became popular after Oxford and Cambridge held their first track-and-field meet in 1864. From the Islamic Middle East across the Indian subcontinent to China and Japan, wrestlers—mostly but not exclusively male—embodied and enacted the values of their cultures. The wrestler’s strength was always more than a merely personal statement. More often than not, the men who strained and struggled understood themselves to...

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation - Guidance on fortifying the cybersecurity of government networks and systems. The Office of Management and Budget in July quietly issued a memorandum to all federal civilian agencies outlining the administration’s “cross-agency cyber investment priorities” for the fiscal year 2024 budget, emphasizing that implementing zero trust and IT modernization must be at the top of the list. Our Nation’s security and economic prosperity depend on the stability and integrity of our Federal communications and information infrastructure. Threats to cyberspace pose some of the most serious challenges of the 21st century for the United States. The Urbanized Area Formula Program (49 U.S.C. 5307) makes Federal resources available to urbanized areas and governors for transit capital and operating assistance and for transportation-related planning in urbanized areas. A recipient must spend at least 1 percent of its 5307 funds on security projects, unless it determ...