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...draft weighed heavily on the minds of male students...
While almost all of the students had obtained college deferments in order to postpone the draft, each student was assigned a lottery number. The lower the lottery number, the more likely it was that the students would have to enter the draft come graduation time...
...with the ending of the draft and the heavy withdrawal of American troops in March of 1973, the class became less activist...
...yourself is just a way of thinking things over, of processing ideas through articulation, a sort of audible shadowboxing. The deaf woman turns her brain waves into fast-forward hand dancing. Same thing." As a writer, I talk to myself in order to try out ideas--a rough draft recited to the pigeons--before writing them down. A playwright must speak the lines aloud. What's crazy about that...
...spring of 1992 Turlais was given two opportunities of a lifetime--an acceptance to Harvard and a selection by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 10th round of the draft to play baseball for a living...