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...height of the Vietnam War, Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about littering. The song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” tells the story of a young man who is called before the draft board only to discover that an arrest for littering a few years back makes him ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War, a war he detests. The narrator, asked if he’s rehabilitated himself after his crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes...
Bush won't discuss the draft, choosing to focus on next month's epic Rose Bowl matchup. So how might Texas, going for its first national championship in 36 years, try to stop Bush? "We just have to have two or three people around him at all times," says Texas safety Michael Huff. Be careful: that strategy offers U.S.C.'s other weapons more free room (remember record-breaking quarterback Matt Leinart, last year's Heisman winner?) On the other hand, U.S.C.'s defense can be porous, so Young, the nation's highest-rated passer, and his Longhorns could keep...
...recalibration and retrenchment do not come naturally to this President. Bush recently rejected a draft of an economic speech because it didn't mention his now dead proposal to restructure Social Security. He is still steamed because his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Count imploded; he vented about it to African-American leaders who met with him last week to discuss racial issues and Katrina disaster relief--prompting one of them to gently remind him that it was not African Americans but conservative Republicans who were her undoing. His reading of late has tended toward...
...blood for oil! Troops out now!” and demanded “Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation.” Several of the protesters criticized what Cambridge resident Eli Beckerman called the military’s “poverty draft.” “Usually military recruiters target poor towns and citizens,” said Erica Kujawski, a high school student from Wellesley, Mass., referring to the military’s practice of attracting students by promising to pay for their educations. Boston City Councillor at Large Felix...
...court historically has granted extra deference to the military. And according to Polsby, the stipulations of the Solomon Amendment are far less onerous than, say, the military draft...