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...contract was announced by the Hartford, Conn. team Tuesday, and follows Martins' graduation from Harvard this past June. Martins was the fifth overall pick in the NHL's 1994 Supplementary Draft...
...Supplementary Draft, which used to allow players over the age of 20 to be drafted to the NHL, gave the Whalers the rights to Martins as a player upon his graduation from Harvard. The Supplementary Draft was abolished last year...
There are already several "Draft Powell" organizations in the field, operating without his blessing or his opposition. But their level of intensity does not put one in mind of Desert Storm. There are two committees registered with the Federal Election Commission, one based in California and one in suburban Washington. Andrew DiMarco, a California lawyer, calls his outfit the Draft Committee for Colin Powell's Army. So far he's collected 13,400 signatures urging Powell to run, but his drive is going into low gear until Powell gives some clearer sign of his intentions. The other committee...
...ceremony Tuesday. Storm coulds are already gathering, at least among Republican presidential candidates. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas have criticized Clinton for moving toward normalization; Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.), who may soon withdraw from the race, on Sunday called Clinton a "triple draft dodger" and told NBC's "Meet the Press" that establishing diplomatic ties was "going to deny him a second term for sure." But Clinton will have formidable support Tuesday: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), a former Navy pilot who spent six years in aHanoi prisoner-of-war camp.Said McCain Sunday...
...think it would be a simple matter to draft a constitutional amendment prohibiting the burning of flags. Flags and fire: two fairly straightforward concepts. And everything was going smoothly with the House Judiciary Committee's deliberations earlier this month until one of the amendment's supporters, Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, whipped out a Bloomingdale's catalog showing Tommy Hilfiger men's briefs in flag motifs. The ensuing discussion raised profound issues, which deserve our full attention as the amendment proceeds to the floor of the House and thence to the states. Take the question, for example, of whether...