Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton wasn't going to be any clearer. He didn't break American laws, he said, when the pot-smoking charges flew -- a dodge that held for a nanosecond, until it was revealed that Clinton's noninhaling had taken place in England. And then there was the draft...
...Clinton administration broached the topic ever-so-cautiously. That left ample opportunity for Colin Powell, the darling of the American public whose position on gays in the military was well known, to sway people to his side of the argument. A four-star general versus a draft dodger? No contest...
...expansion of its long-standing mandate to pay when the mother's life is endangered. After dawdling for months, HHS decided that the new law meant states must fund such abortions or risk losing their Medicaid dollars -- a legal interpretation other Administration lawyers dispute. As procedure dictates, a draft directive was faxed to the offices of White House Cabinet Secretary Christine Varney and domestic policy chief Carol Rasco. Almost everyone, including the President, had left for Christmas vacation, and the proposed order sat unread. "In fact," says a White House aide, "Carol never got it at all." Not so, counters...
...problem then became political. " HHS boxed us in," explains a White House official. "We were forced to go along with their draft. If we knocked down HHS and conformed to the President's views on states' rights, there'd be a second story saying we were restricting abortion, and one of our major constituencies would go nuts." As for motivation, White House aides see little mystery. " HHS has its own agenda," says a Clinton adviser. "It's full of abortion-rights ideologues who don't understand we're moving this issue their way as fast...
...coach in Pasadena (Calif.) Southwest Little League, the last time when girls play baseball before social pressure forces them into softball, I would always draft girls onto my hardball teams. My co-coach, a young Harvey Mansfield with more common sense, liked to draft girls because he thought they "civilized" the boys. I liked to pick girls because I like to win, and the girls were every bit as skilled, strong and tough as boys...