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Wofford envisions creating a "Peace Corps to America," a youth service program for the nation's parks and cities modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Wofford's own Peace Corps. He hopes to enlist upwards of one-third of America's youth...
...that might enable him to circumvent the habeas corpus guidelines that now essentially restrict capital felons to a single federal appeal. Kathleen Behan, his new attorney, has been relentless in developing the innocence argument. She has made more than a dozen trips to Grundy to uncover new evidence and enlist further support. A few months ago, she rented a backhoe to dig up the landfill where Keester Shortridge said he dumped the bloody sheets. For her effort, she was rewarded with a 1-ft. by 2- ft. swatch of the sheet. She has not only lobbied the press for coverage...
...Rhodes scholarship, Clinton was indeed casting about for some way to avoid going to Vietnam -- not by evading the draft, but by taking advantage of one of a number of special deals that the system offered to young men who were well connected. One way was to enlist in the National Guard. That's how Dan Quayle was able to do military duty in his home state of Indiana...
Cops and TV are intertwined in more ways than ever. The FBI and other law- enforcement agencies enlist TV's help in tracking down fugitives through shows like America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries. They let reporters from local stations, as well as network news shows like 48 Hours, follow them around on everything from routine patrols to big-time drug busts. And when they crack a major case, they sell their stories to Hollywood producers for the inevitable "fact-based" TV movie...
...cold war, we helped avoid great evils. But now we have the chance to advance great goods. While the communists have lost, we have not won until we prove that the ideas of freedom can provide the peoples of the former Soviet Union with a better life. We must enlist the same spirit that won the defensive battle against communism to win the offensive battle to ensure the victory of freedom. We must mobilize the West to commit the billions of dollars needed to give Russia's reforms a fighting chance to succeed...