Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that I didn't like the draft atHarvard didn't mean I liked it for people inRoxbury," said Michael L. Mavroidis...
Medical and law school seemed like safer bets,and so those who thought about having some kind ofconventional career (and had low draft numbers ormedical deferments from the draft) headed downthose paths in large numbers...
Fear and the Draft...
Clint Eastwood didn't hate the novel. What he loathed were several early-draft screenplays based on it. They tried to flesh out Robert James Waller's slight narrative with flashbacks and fantasy sequences, and one of them even imposed a conventional happy ending on it, in which the most famously sundered lovers of our time, roving photographer Robert Kincaid and farm wife Francesca Johnson, were reunited in Katmandu. Eastwood also fell into mutually uncompromising disagreement with the original director, Bruce Beresford, about casting the feminine lead. He told the producers he would move on if these problems weren...
...rough draft of President Clinton's officialpronouncement on affirmative action"leaves the bulk of those programs unchanged," according to James Carney, TIME White House correspondent. As such, the sweeping review ordered up by the President in response to Republican attacks on affirmative action seems likely only to backfire. Designed to assuage the opposition to affirmative action restrictions (a position characterized in the draft as"white male resentment"), while reassuring traditional liberal constituencies, the report, says Carney, "is a lose-lose proposition - the starting point for Republican attacks." President Clinton is expected to unveil the findings in a major speech several...