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There are two reasons why the Rockies and the Marlins don't have very good players, or even players whose names appear on anything but their birth certificates. Number one, the expansion draft allowed them to pick the cast-offs and longtime minor leaguers of other major league teams. And number two, baseball just doesn't have that many good players anymore, largely because the sport has been so badly mismanaged that children grow up playing other games instead...
...when Clinton clashed with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell on the gay issue. "Not since Carter has a President been so disliked by the military," said a Joint Chiefs staff officer. Uniformed personnel ranging from privates to generals routinely refer to their Commander in Chief as "Slick Willy" and "Draft Dodger." Beyond the financial affronts like Clinton's proposed government pay freeze, which will save $18 billion in military spending, the ranks are rife with bogus stories that Clinton forbids officers to wear their uniforms in the White House and that the First Lady refuses to ride in cars with...
...effect, "I then ordered the officers to attack his joints," Koon recounted. "The intent I had was to cripple him, to break bones, to make him unable to push off the ground." The defense got further support when the judge refused to allow into evidence passages from a draft copy of Koon's book, Presumed Guilty, about the incident, in which the author makes racially inflammatory statements...
Then, on April 25, the people would speak. Yeltsin planned to ask them in a nationwide referendum to give him a "vote of confidence," endorse a draft of a new constitution setting up a two-chamber parliament and approve a law setting up elections for this new legislative body. If the electorate said da three times, the Supreme Soviet and Congress of People's Deputies would quietly -- in theory -- pass out of existence, and the country would enjoy a spanking new, popularly elected, democratic and legitimate government...
Race was not the only reason given by Mansfield for grade inflation. In a letter to The Crimson on March 10, the professor introduced another possible explanation: Professors might have inflated grades to prevent students from losing their draft deferments and having to go to Vietnam...