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...today's trivia bonus question: Which university had the most players selected in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft...
Host: No, I'm sorry. Harvard University had five players drafted in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft the most of any college or university and two more than Michagan, Boston University and Minnesota...
...indefinitely at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The core group urged Clinton to punish Havana by halting airline flights to Cuba, but State Department moderates lobbied to maintain informal exchanges, including charter flights. Morton Halperin, the National Security Council's point man on Cuba, circulated a draft presidential speech offering carrots to Castro if he adopted reforms. Hard-liners, led by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America, Michael Skol, allied themselves with the core group and launched a guerrilla war against the conciliatory moves. Clinton shelved the carrots and embarked on the hard line...
This was the case at the Adams Pool last weekend, where writer, director and star Neil Farnsworth '98 staged his play "Rust." Many in the audience commented that they could remember reading the play in draft form over two years ago, and there's no question that Farnsworth mush have moved heaven and earth--or at least the OFA--to get his work from the page to the stage. But the play itself had no more to recommend it than most freshman efforts; and the cast, for whatever reason, didn't add much to its appeal...
...many succumb to Faustian handshakes with agents. University of Maryland president William E. Kirwan, who is heading the NCAA special committee, says, "We realize we underestimated the magnitude of the problem. We estimate that 90% of those who would be picked in the first round of a pro draft have had some form of contact with agents and perhaps received improper gifts. I don't think there's anyone who would look at the system as it is and say this is how it should...