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Young men had been very worried about the draft. It was going to take over and possibly destroy their lives, this thing that they didn’t even want to do. The draft lottery was sometime during sophomore year, in ’69 or ’70. I remember watching the lottery...
Peltason: I had two draft numbers, and the second was better than the first. Fifty-three, and then 188. The higher number meant that I had less of a chance of going...
...like hockey will stay away from Bright Ice (or stroll in midway through an intense ECAC game), and “diehard” NCAA fans will ignore Harvard opponents until they become fashionable pool picks in March. The fans who watch the late rounds of the NFL Draft won’t recognize Jamil Soriano if and when he’s picked—and football is one of the sports that draws relatively well...
...exhausting, frustrating negotiation, the 15 members of the U.N. Security Council met to discuss the President's latestdraft resolution on Iraq. Gone was the most contentious clause authorizing an automatic use of military force if Saddam Hussein didn't fully cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors. But the new draft still contained the implied threat of an attack, and sought to empower weapons inspectors to authorize no-fly and no-drive zones around inspection sites. It also allows inspectors to remove Iraqi experts and their families from the country to conduct interviews. The toned-down document was meant to assuage...
Makiya’s proposal, which was presented in rough draft form to Cheney last Friday, will be formally submitted at the end of November to the Conference of Iraqi Opposition—an organization of expatriate Iraqis who are opposed to Saddam Hussein’s government...