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...separately from high-born students. During his college education in Bombay, a Sanskrit professor refused to teach an outcaste the language of Hindu scriptures. Ambedkar compensated by becoming one of the most highly educated Indians of his time. After the British left in 1947, Ambedkar helped draft the newly independent nation's constitution and piloted legislation banning untouchability. He grew disillusioned with the slow pace of Hindu reform, however, resigned from the government and, shortly before his death in 1956, converted to Buddhism along with thousands of his followers...
...President Nixon during the Watergate impeachment proceedings; in Westwood, Mass. In 1954 St. Clair found renown as chief assistant to Joseph Welch, counsel for the U.S. Army during Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist investigation. During his storied career, St. Clair defended Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, tried for encouraging draft evasion (the charges were later dropped), and represented the Boston School Committee in its losing struggle against mandatory busing...
...Merullo knows all the local guys who were thinking of signing me, and I told him that I wasn't going to sign, that I didn't want to be drafted by some team and have them pissed off at me when I'm draft-eligible again," Lentz says. "So I wrote a letter which he forwarded to all the teams...
According to the rules of Major League Baseball, once a player enters a four-year college he is draft-eligible after three years or when...
...well. The righthander's fastball improved from 88-89 MPH to a blistering 92, catching the attention of major league scouts. The premier scouting magazine in the country, Baseball America, has predicted that Crockett could be selected as high as the late first round in June's amateur draft...