Word: draft
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...believed. On June 1, 2004, the White House put out a press release listing the top 10 international drug kingpins, who "present a threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States." Robert Charles, then Assistant Secretary of State, recalls that when he saw the draft list, he asked, "Why don't we have any Afghan drug lords on the list?" An interagency debate ensued, then a scramble to come up with names. Several popped up. And so, on the final list, coming in at No. 10 was the name "Haji Bashir [sic] Noorzai...
...University of Arizona--where he took the number 0--in his mind, the number of minutes his doubters thought he would play as a freshman. After helping the Wildcats reach the NCAA championship game in 2001, Arenas watched every team bypass him in the first round of the NBA draft. He cried. "The teams in this league said no to Gilbert Arenas," says an amazed Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson--whose team didn't have a first-round pick...
Ball and the Busters selected Penn forward Mark Zoller with the first overall pick in league's draft. Zoller is the early frontrunner for Ivy Player of the Year, ranking in the top five in a number of categories, including points, rebounds, and field-goal percentage. Columbia forward Ben Nwachukwu is an excellent rebounder in the paint. McGrath used an early pick on graduated Harvard center Brian Cusworth and enjoyed his early contributions, but now faces a scoring void that Princeton part-timers Kyle Koncz and Marcus Schroeder and Dartmouth forward Johnathan Ball are trying to fill...
...teams, they will develop case strategies and draft briefs and arguments...
...doesn't. He was only named once in the first draft, and then I thought, he doesn't want a name. And since the book I was using as a model in my mind was Under Western Eyes, where the narrator isn't named, I thought, no, he doesn't want a name. And I didn't give...