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...about as likely as joining the circus. If I had been told during my first year at Harvard that soon after graduation I would be getting whipped into shape by a Marine Drill Instructor at the Navy’s Officer Candidate School, I would have responded that the draft must have been reinstated...
...most dominating offensive player to come through the Crimson system in the modern era. Not only has he set nearly every Harvard receiving record but NFL scouts have already expressed heavy interest in his stock. If Morris continues to progress, there is a strong possibility that he will be drafted higher than any other Harvard player in history. Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00, now the starting middle linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks, is currently the all-time highest Crimson draft pick (4th round, 119th overall...
What's more, al-Qaeda seems to be having little trouble funding its continuing operations. According to a draft of a report by a United Nations group charged with monitoring international controls on terrorist groups, only about $10 million of identified terrorist assets have been frozen since the beginning of the year, compared with $112 million in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11. In Washington, the Treasury Department challenged the report's conclusions on the ineffectiveness of the effort to clamp down on terrorists' assets. But the U.N. document also detailed the relative ease with which terrorists can cross international...
...close scrutiny for its handling of the tragedy. Jeff Gaspin, an NBC executive vice president in charge of movies, says the network is trying to figure out how many script pages should be devoted to Sept. 11: "We're at the five- or six-page option in the first draft, and we have to see whether we want to expand that." The risk, he says, is coming off as exploitative...
...regulation-based approach of the nation-state to the incentives of the marketplace. Already industry is being deregulated; welfare reform has replaced more generous unemployment compensation with education intended to enable the unemployed to compete in the labor market; an all-volunteer army has replaced the draft...