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Though most, if not all, of the Crimson’s nine draft picks have imagined scoring a game-winning goal in a Stanley Cup Final since they first laced up their skates, their initial inklings were the stuff of pure fantasy, detached from any real sense of what it meant to be a professional athlete. Now just one or two steps away from the realization of those adolescent reveries—years removed from those first practice runs in local rinks and on suburban streets—there can be no illusions about what life as a hockey player...
...temptation remains. Even with the threat of a work stoppage looming this summer, several prominent collegians signed offers with the clubs that had plucked them from the entry draft, forgoing their final years of eligibility in order to benefit from the current terms of the collective bargaining agreement. Though the NHL Players Association and league representatives have barely even begun to discuss the provisions of a future settlement, the average player salary and maximum signing bonus are expected to hold steady, if not fall, so many amateurs cashed in on the best possible outcome in a deteriorating labor market, according...
...would give the President of the United States the power to demand two years of potentially unpaid labor in any capacity—including military service—from nearly every man and woman in the country between the ages of 18 and 26. At that point, a draft would hardly be necessary. The President could have a cost-free standing army at his disposal...
...round of bureaucratic shuffling. Some who recall the Holocaust and Rwanda don't believe Darfur measures up. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has said he will appoint a commission to investigate the charges. European ministers, who have been reluctant even to acknowledge ethnic cleansing, are scrambling to draft legal briefs. The Arab League and Sudan have scoffed at the U.S. claim, charging Bush with having an anti-Islamic agenda. Meanwhile, the killings, rapes and torchings continue...
...wizards base their model electorates, inevitably, on who voted last time. Earth-shattering events like the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq could yield a substantially different electorate in 2004, but no one knows whether that means, for instance, that there will be a surge of military-draft-fearing 18-to24-year-olds coming out to vote this year. The subject of Iraq, in itself, has to be hard to poll; people are torn among their loyalty to the troops, their lack of knowledge about a previously obscure part of the world and the nagging sense that something...