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...Mellinger was working as a 19-year-old drywall hanger in Eugene, Oregon, when he came home to find a draft notice waiting for him. "I went down to the draft board and asked them if this was really serious," he recalls, "or if it was like an invitation." But it was an order, the first of many Mellinger would obey. He started his military career as a clerk in what was then called West Germany, and was looking forward hanging up his uniform after two years of service. "I was dead-set on getting out," he says...
...said last night. “As students, we can yell outside Holyoke Center, and we’re not going to get kicked out of Harvard.” In the long-term, the union members and SLAM said they want to draft stronger anti-discrimination language. Aguilera said she wants to use the dining hall incident to prompt a broad anti-discrimination policy that would extend to all workers at Harvard, including those who aren’t in a union. She and others at the meeting plan to draft an initial version of the new language this...
...Urals region of central Russia. "We are a young and currently jobless family," said Salnikov. "Most locals are also unemployed because they used to work for the metallurgical sector. What are we supposed to do in this situation?" Putin's answer: "Private and public authorities will have to draft an entire range of measures in an effort to preserve jobs...
...they make a lot of noise, so we wanted to turn up the noise on the other side too.”Particpants in the career panel include sports journalist Sally Jenkins, filmmaker Gary Ross, and law professor Noah R. Feldman ’92, who is helping to draft the Iraqi constitution.Beyond the opportunities to learn about careers in the arts and humanities, Greenblatt is excited about today’s event as a valuable opportunity to hear from Yo-Yo Ma. “Much as I admire, as I do deeply, Drew Faust, and as much...
...recent weeks Bao has repeatedly questioned the authoritarian nature of China's central government. He helped draft Charter 08, a lengthy pro-democracy manifesto that was made public Dec. 10 and was initially signed by 303 mainland writers, scholars and artists - a number that has since grown to several thousand. Then he released a series of essays through Radio Free Asia that questioned the accomplishments of the Party. In those essays, Bao argued that the Communist Party's motivations for reforming the economy in the early 1980s after the devastation of the Cultural Revolution were not entirely pure. "Even though...