Word: draft
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kevin Durant: Be serious. The NBA Draft is not a given. It's a privilege. So to be picked number two is phenomenal-I can't complain at all. A lot guys want to be in the shoes I am in right...
...Kevin Durant: People are still on that, man. I just tell people that it really doesn't matter. I mean, if I drop [in the draft] because I didn't lift 185 pounds, then it's a big thing. But people say I'm not going to drop at all. So I just let that slide off. But it got to me a little bit at first...
...TIME: So besides working out, how have you been keeping busy before the big draft...
...test for presidential candidates, "The Courage Primary," was inspiring, especially his call for national service [June 25]. It has been far too long since this country has asked anything of its citizens beyond opening their wallets. Why not offer the option of joining the Peace Corps or develop "draft" programs with agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? A true national-service tour of duty should be two years spent bettering the lives of others...
...better question might be why a Japanese party would draft a former Latin American strongman as a candidate in the first place. But beyond sheer publicity for a party that needs it - the PNP holds just nine seats in the Diet, fewer than the Japanese Communist Party - Fujimori is held in high regard by some Japanese, despite his alleged crimes. In 1997, while President of Peru, he spearheaded the dramatic rescue of 71 hostages from Tokyo's embassy in Peru, earning the respect of Japanese who viewed their own leaders' performance in the crisis as ineffectual. "If Fujimori...