Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Forget collateral damage for just a moment -- the war in Kosovo can cause collateral goodies too, thanks to the war-within-a-war over Kosovo on Capitol Hill. Republicans are in such a hurry to embarrass their draft-dodging President next week by approving $13 billion in military spending when Clinton asked for only $6 billion, they're ready to settle up another tab: $2.4 billion, mostly aid to Central America for the victims of Hurricane Mitch...
Nonetheless, Harvard remains the clear favorite in the match-up. Aside from the 11-0 drubbing it was handed by the Crimson last season, Northeastern has since lost team-leader Carlos Pena to the Texas Rangers, who selected him 10th overall in the Major League Baseball draft...
...watched three young men give their draft notices to the college chaplain and proclaim, "We are not criminals. It is the government who is criminal to conduct this war in Vietnam...
Burgess is the third Blue Devil to leave the team in the past two weeks. Fellow sophomores Brand and William Avery had announced their intentions to enter the 1999 NBA draft...
Freshman Corey Maggette was also reportedly considering leaving early for the pros but hadn't made up his mind as of late last week. The deadline for underclassmen to send a letter to the NBA declaring for the draft...