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...different from [MacDonald and Bourbeau]," said sophomore John Weisbrod, who was a fourth-round draft choice of the Minnesota North Stars in 1987. "I love to play hockey so much that I would play anywhere the [pros] put me as long as I'm playing hockey for a living...
Weisbrod, along with MacDonald and Bourbeau, was one of the current Crimson players to go in the early rounds of the NHL draft, and his 6-ft., 1-in., 205-lb. frame has a lot to do with...
...tough to predict how well a player will do when he's still in high school," Weisbrod said. "It's hard to tell, so teams are more liable to draft the bigger guys higher...
While the parliamentary system Fulbright recommends has certain advantages, it also has many problems. If Congress were to elect the president/prime minister (as, Fulbright notes, James Madison suggested in the first draft of the Constitution), there would be none of the checks and balances that keep our system free from tyranny. A parliamentary system also might become a tool to keep the power in the hands of a small, self-perpetuating body removed from the people...
...daily lives are affected by computers--schools and governments keep our records on computer files, we get our cash from computer-operated automatic tellers and word processors make it possible to write one draft of our 10-page papers...