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...Service Among the Select In "An Absence in Alabama" [Feb. 16], you discussed whether Bush skipped a year of service with the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. Let's assume he is able to demonstrate convincingly that he did attend his required training sessions in Alabama. How does this change that Bush was given special treatment and allowed to join a National Guard unit that was practically guaranteed not to go into combat? Is serving in such a unit the same as honorably serving today in a National Guard unit that is likely to see combat...
...been a long time since college sports resembled what they were in their sunny, letter-sweater days. Today they are big business, which means big money, which too often means bad behavior. In 2002 the University of Alabama was barred from postseason play for two years for violations that included providing strippers for the enjoyment of recruits. Top running back Lynell Hamilton claims he was offered alcohol, pot and sex at a party while visiting the University of Oregon in 2002. Disgusted, he went to San Diego State instead...
INSTALLED. WILLIAM PRYOR JR., 41, Alabama attorney general; as a U.S. appeals-court judge; by President Bush, despite opposition by Senate Democrats, who objected to Pryor's comments and writings on abortion and homosexuality. Bush's second recess appointment this year follows the promotion of Mississippi federal Judge Charles Pickering...
...been dodging random drug tests, which were instituted in some military units as early as 1971. But there is no evidence to support that; in fact, the dentist who worked on Bush's teeth and who later became the commander of the base medical unit, told TIME that the Alabama Guard did not conduct random drug tests until the 1980s...
...middle of a war--or is it a war?--Almost an entire presidential briefing is taken up with the question of how many times a 26-year-old George W. Bush showed up in Alabama for National Guard duty more than 30 years...