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...Brighton, Mass. native, Welch was this year’s top NHL draft pick among those players selected from the ECAC. Chosen in the second round by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the 54th overall pick, Welch is also the highest selection of Harvard’s eight NHL draftees...
Cavanagh was also taken in this year’s NHL draft. The San Jose Sharks plucked Cavanagh in the 6th round with the 182nd pick overall. The 5’11 center, originally from Warwick, Rhode Island, spent last season at Phillips Exeter, taking a post-graduate year before deciding on Harvard...
...substantial majority of students strongly opposed the draft, with only 8 percent strongly supporting its reinstutution...
Although 79 percent of students across the country support U.S.-led airstrikes on Afghanistan, nearly a third oppose sending ground troops and a third said they would not serve in the army if the draft were reinstated, according to a recently conducted survey at the Institute of Politics...
...increased airport security. As something to tell the grandchildren, this lacks a certain Stephen Ambrose quality. Of course, sacrifice should not become a fetish. Wars usually mean domestic austerity, but squeezing the civilian economy isn't necessary or helpful for this one. World War II required a universal male draft. The war on terror has no need or even use for most of those who are qualified to serve. So what does that leave...