Word: draft
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...potential, and wonderful possibilities, a quarterback change took place. Granted, when 2005 starter Liam O’Hagan took over for fellow junior Chris Pizzotti for the Crimson, it wasn’t because of terribly poor play by Pizzotti. Nor was it because Harvard used an eleventh-round draft pick and spent millions of dollars on O’Hagan’s services, like the Broncos did on Cutler.At the college level, a coach has no incentive to play anybody except those who he thinks give his team the best chance to win. With no dollars...
Four months after losing the presidential vote to Felipe Caldern, former Mexico City Mayor Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador--alleging election fraud and dirty campaigning--launched a parallel government last week, even swearing himself in as Mexico's "legitimate" President. He plans to draft a constitution and prevent Caldern's Dec. 1 inauguration by staging street protests...
...shaky health. Baucus believes private Social Security accounts are a nonstarter. "Don't waste our time," he says. "It's off the table." He plans to deliver that message to Paulson in person. Charles Rangel The New York Democrat, best known for being in favor of a military draft, is the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees Social Security. He has already met with Paulson and calls him a "straight shooter," but he told the New York Daily News that "with me in charge, President Bush can forget about privatizing Social Security." Andrew Biggs...
Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie Decker is no stranger to the military draft. During the Vietnam War, her father was drafted to fight while many others were able to evade service. So when Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., announced this Sunday that he wanted to bring back the draft for everyone 18 and over, it conjured mixed emotions for her. “In some ways, I resent the draft because there were a lot of people who could get out who were far more privileged,” Decker said. “At the same time, it?...
...more than ever obvious that they are trying to reduce the majority in the government either by another resignation or assassination," says Ahdab. The ministerial resignations came on the eve of a cabinet discussion to endorse draft United Nations statutes for the creation of an international tribunal to judge Hariri's assassins. With Damascus widely blamed for the killing, Ahdab says the resignations of the pro-Syrian ministers were carefully timed. "They [quit] so they didn't have to ratify what came from the U.N.," he says...