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...however, did not participate in this nationwide statement of unity and progress. As a conscientious objector to national policy, I refused to set my clock one hour ahead. Instead, I set my watch 53 minutes ahead, my clock 47 minutes ahead, and my computer's clock 37 minutes ahead. You see, I had already set my clocks ahead. And therein lies my problem...
...conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War's most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier...
...WERE KINGS: As Spike Lee says of Muhammad Ali in this enthralling new documentary, 'He fused politics and sport.' Ali?s conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War?s most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier. Leon Gast's documentary details the next step in Ali's career: Act III of a great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble...
Just 1.6 percent of male alumni said they took conscientious objector status, compared to 18.5 percent who were drafted and failed a draft physical and 13.9 percent who received a deferment. Not one drafted member of the Class of 1971 served in Vietnam, and only 1.3 percent of alumni enlisted in the armed forces...
...account of how, during the similar 1956 revolt in Hungary, Ehrenburg was dispatched to a foreign writers' conference to defend Khrushchev's brutal intervention against criticism, a job he performed without complaint. True, Ehrenburg was no fawning Stalinist; but to imply that he was some sort of conscientious objector trivializes the sacrifices made by real dissidents...