Word: draft
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...warriors as out of touch elitists too pampered to do the kind of ass-kicking the American people deserve. If military equals poor, then anti-war equals wealthy and snobbish.But the soldiers-are-poor image also serves the left. When Congressman Charles Rangel introduced a bill to reintroduce the draft, it was widely seen as an anti-war gesture. The idea was that, if the military became an institution that truly represented all Americans—not just the desperately poor—then Congress would only send us to war if it was absolutely necessary.First, liberals like to point...
...mail records show, Scanlon sent Abramoff Scanlon's draft of a statement praising Adam Kidan, a co-owner of SunCruz Casinos, a Florida gambling-boat company that Abramoff and Kidan had bought the month before, after a public dispute with the previous owner. Abramoff and Kidan, who have since pleaded guilty in Florida to fraud in connection with their financing of the SunCruz purchase, hoped that Ney's positive statement would "let people know that SunCruz now was in honest hands," according to a source familiar with the case. In an Oct. 23 e-mail, Abramoff proposed throwing...
...Bowl game last week, he became sport's No. 1 underdog hero. "I'm just a real blessed guy," says Young, who must decide by Jan. 15 whether to return senior year or enter the NFL If Young picks the pros, he'll face Bush again?for the No.1 draft pick...
...Defense Department were to reinstate the draft, it would have 8.5 million records of would-be soldiers at its fingertips—with birth dates, skill sets and contact information,” Melody Joy Kramer wrote in a column in The Daily Pennsylvanian last month...
...with little fanfare, but with fantastic tiramisu, that Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II unveiled the latest plans for the fourth floor of the Hilles building and solicited feedback from students. We are generally pleased with the latest draft and glad that so many students took the time to offer honest critiques of it. And we hope that the College heeds the latest student input on this space and that changes they contribute come to fruition in a timely manner.Perhaps the most welcome element of plans for Hilles’ fourth floor is that it will...