Word: draft
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...loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City. Some items reveal facets of their personalities; others are designed to create imperial images that would promote their subjects' fealty. So important were the artworks in buttressing the family's right to rule that Qianlong inspected them all at draft stage. The Manchus had ousted the last Ming Emperor, whose rule was marked by financial bankruptcy and internal rebellion. Kangxi was only 7 in 1662 when he assumed the throne from his father, the first Qing Emperor, who died in a smallpox epidemic. Surviving the contagion (with scars intact...
...countries refused to open the door to their service industries until they got a favorable deal on agriculture. Trade ministers will gather in Hong Kong in December for another try. Again, the prospects aren't promising. The WTO boss, Pascal Lamy, said that he would have to delay a draft deal because "there is not a sufficient level of convergence...
...while leading the RedHawks to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament in 1999. After scoring 24 points a game in his senior season at Miami, he averaged 30 in the tournament to lead all scorers, and was selected by the Timberwolves with the sixth pick of the 1999 draft...
...quarterbacks—neither of whom had ever taken a meaningful snap in a Crimson uniform—were competing to see which one would replace the best player in the Ivy League, an NFL draft pick, and arguably the top signal caller in Crimson history...
...dubbed “Little Fitzy.” His two passing touchdowns and one rushing, over 60 yards of nimble scrambling, and leadership of a fourth-quarter comeback gave the Crimson hope of life after the graduation 2005 Ivy Player of the Year and NFL draft choice Ryan Fitzpatrick.Rough day for: Irvin, the transfer from Tulane who earned the nod to start, who had his sixth pass attempt of the day intercepted and returned for a 42-yard score by Holy Cross’s Casey Gough. O’Hagan went in and never left.Top performers: Harvard?...