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Meanwhile, at the Kong’s upper levels, clusters of grad students and Cambridge locals share Scorpion Bowls and draft beer. A few grind to the rhythms of Ashanti and Aaliyah on the small square parquet dance floor, while others take aim at the dart boards hung beside a framed Playboy cover from 1982 announcing steamy images from “The Harvard Scene...
...political suicide, so not surprisingly, the Bush administration has tried to distance itself from the announcement, insisting there are absolutely no plans to ask Congress to reinstate compulsory service. Still given the apparent quagmire in Iraq, the Pentagon’s actions are not so surprising. Bringing back the draft might be unthinkable—even untenable—but the Bush administration has little by little exhausted its options in a war it should never have chosen to undertake alone in the first place...
...obscure Defense Department page, which has since been deleted, was an announcement of an effort to recruit new members to fill the many vacant seats on community draft boards nationwide—boards that have sat by idly with no function since the end of the Vietnam War. “Serve Your Community and the Nation,” the announcement urged, “If a military draft becomes necessary, approximately 2,000 Local and Appeal Boards throughout America would decide which young men... receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service.” An estimated...
While it is certain the Bush administration would never reinstate the draft in an election year (besides, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last year he was opposed to a new draft), the Pentagon’s actions reflect the glaring urgency of the situation in Iraq. As the violence intensifies, there has been increased attention to the fact that troop levels in Iraq are grossly inadequate. Late last week, the Pentagon announced its new troop rotation plan, which calls for 50,000 additional U.S. troops in Iraq in the next several months, bringing the total level...
While Harvard’s 12 NHL draft picks impressed pro scouts with their size, their skating or their shot, Turano’s greatest skill has always been difficult to quantify. But if players were judged on the great intangible statistic of effort per shift, he might be an All-American...