Word: draft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympian, MacDonald was drafted in the third round of the 1985 draft by the Calgary Flames, and had his rights dealt to Hartford...
Absent father. Melancholy mom. Squall-free adolescence followed by the ritual college degree. But with no draft to face -- no obligations at all, really -- how is a bright, sensitive, well-off young fellow to grow up? Honoring tradition, Alec Stern decides to go abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling...
...Coleman, her mother and grandmother have filled time's crevices with waiting -- for a man to return, a new life to begin or an old one to end, for love to be reborn. The time is 1972, and a crisis has brought Zoe to her Wisconsin hometown. Avoiding the draft, her brother had fled to Canada; now he is a drug addict in a local mental hospital. Through him Zoe reawakens from the arid existence of the once loved; recapturing a tender moment they shared as children brings redemption. She learns that "love isn't something you wait...
...gift because he used it on a fact-finding trip. Senator Orrin Hatch received a $7,500 gem-encrusted gold ring inscribed WITH LOVE FROM ALI after the Utah Republican introduced a bill to allow Muhammad Ali and others similarly situated to sue the Government over wrongful draft-evasion convictions. Hatch laughed off any notion that the ring was tied to the bill. "((Ali)) said he would beat me up if I didn't take...
...Architects confirm the College is considering a "student center" at Memorial Hall. Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown will draft a feasibility study on a dining hall for freshpersons and meeting spaces. Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 describes the proposal as at the "dreaming stage...