Word: draft
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...Bill Belichick, our team's wildly successful head coach, cheats. Turns out that in the first game of the season, one of Belichick's assistants improperly videotaped the defensive coaches of the opposing New York Jets, trying to steal their signs. As punishment, the Pats were stripped of future draft picks and fined, as was Belichick. Across the nation, sports writers wagged their fingers. Editorials called Belichick a disgrace. And us fans? Well, when Belichick's mug appeared on the video screen just before the Pats' second game, the hometown crowd cheered so loudly and so long that Belichick actually...
...love being a part of as they say, the first draft of history,” said Sproul, who plans to return to ABC as bureau chief in January. “To be right in the middle of it and to be a person who helps communicate to America what is happening is a thrill, just a daily thrill...
...Young people have never had a greater vested interest in politics,” Leach said. “It isn’t grandfathers who are asked to go into the armed forces or potentially face a draft. And on economic issues, young people have an interest in fiscal reasonableness—if you amass fabulous debt, the people who are going to pay for that are those who are just now entering the workforce...
...Summers as well as some of his onetime opponents in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Summers had been invited to speak at a dinner hosted on Wednesday by the University of California board of regents, prompting a group of female University of California at Davis professors to draft an online petition, eventually signed by more than 350 people, protesting the choice. “Inviting a keynote speaker who has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice in academia conveys the wrong message to the University community and to the people of California,” the women wrote...
...Fell" (which Wood does very nicely), but the songs are flexible enough to still sound great. To invoke the Detroit riots, a black boy sings "Let It Be," which, upon his death, is taken up by a gospel choir at his funeral. When Max goes to the draft center, soldiers in masks dance around the inductees to "I Want You (She's So Heavy"). Who's so heavy? The Statue of Liberty, which the recruits hoist above them and carry off to Vietnam. The a cappella "Because" submerges the kids in a psychedelic pool and ends with Max surfacing under...