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...When I was in law school I devised a clever way to beat the draft by joining the Marines later," Ryan explained in an interview in his Holyoke Center office last week...
...proceedings against homosexuals who have committed no offenses of conduct. However, commanders can still force gays to be transferred out of their units, and homosexuals about to be discharged anyway will be suspended from active duty. The President gave Secretary of Defense Les Aspin a July 15 deadline to draft an Executive Order formally lifting the ban and spelling out a detailed policy for doing so. Clinton pledged to enforce "rigorous standards regarding sexual conduct" that presumably would not allow a gay soldier to solicit sex from a straight...
...Judge"; he often called us "Knucklehead" and shared his macadamia nuts when our work pleased him). He spoke cordially to everyone, high and low, though his unpretentiousness sometimes tempted people to underestimate him. Every time I did, he caught me. Late in the court's term, I wrote a draft of an opinion in which, in an obscure footnote, I proceeded to grind my own little ax. He returned the draft quickly, having etched a big X across the offending text...
...that point, Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin stepped in to mediate, proposing a compromise in which Clinton would "instruct" Aspin to draft the Executive Order over a six-month period. Aspin sold the plan to Clinton at a Blair House meeting three days before the Inauguration, but that too was leaked before Aspin met with the Chiefs. When he did, he discovered that the Chiefs had grown much more resistant. Aspin's attempts to keep the Chiefs on board failed during a stormy two-hour session in the top-secret, soundproof "tank" at the Pentagon...
...while Buffalo was fighting its way to the Super Bowl, Dallas was losing and stockpiling blue-chip draft choices like running back Emmitt Smith, quarterback Troy Aikman and wide receiver Michael Irvin. All of which proves the axiom that losing in the Super Bowl is actually worse than going 1-15. If you finish last, you at least get to pick first in the draft. Defeat in the Super Bowl, on the other hand, is a bitter bone to chew with nothing but snowbanks and February staring you in the face...