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...could sense their apprehension: a bit lost, a bit confused. The random arrivals of a pre-car accident Manute Bol (God bless him) and a pre-nothing Shawn Bradley certainly didn’t help. Yet as the cameras turned on and tape began to roll, the 2004 NBA Draft unfolded at Madison Square Garden just like always...
...would be picked first. That would be all too easy, a veritable coin-flip mystery between Emeka Okafor and Dwight Howard already played out by the thousands of sabermetric algorithms, coefficient quantifications and physical improbability arbitrage flooding the internet with pre-draft scrutiny...
...human beings of the past century. It is such a pity that this man has gone. Arek Druzdzel Radom, Poland The Soldiers' Duty "Stretching the troops in Iraq" [June 14] stated that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry called the Army's unilateral extension of soldiers' enlistments a "back-door draft." But if it weren't for our troops fighting in numerous wars, we might not have the freedoms we have today and America could have become a country like Iraq. The war on terrorism started the day al-Qaeda decided to crash planes into buildings, killing thousands of Americans...
...would draw the extra troops from a rarely used pool of reservists designed for times of national crisis, the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). The Pentagon's decision to order inactive soldiers back to duty is fueling a growing debate about expanding the Army and inspiring emotional comparisons to the draft...
...call-up follows a series of so-called stop-loss, stop-move announcements in recent months, which require soldiers who have fulfilled their commitments and want to leave active duty to stay on if their units are deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq. Tapping into anxiety about a possible draft, Kerry has likened these moves to a "back door" version of one. After last week's announcement, Kerry's national security adviser Rand Beers said, "Today that back door swung wide open." Retired Lieut. General Theodore Stroup, who directed Army personnel during Gulf War I, remarks, "This is not a draft...