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...will play for, or if they will even play professionally at all.April of junior year is supposed to be different.Those players are preparing for spring ball and practicing for the upcoming season. Professional football is never far from these players’ minds, but the draft, except for the rare cases of exceptional talents foregoing eligibility, is not for a year, and they can start by focusing on winning next season.All this is true unless you are Harvard running back Clifton Dawson, who was chosen in the sixth round of last week’s Canadian Football League draft...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dawson Gets Chance for Football Future | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...family time and the "massive cut in pay," he added: "The upside is that for somebody like me who's been a pundit for many years, you sit around and you think about the way the world should be," Snow continued. "You become part of something that's very rare, which is an inner White House circle, where you've got to make decisions. So there is something that has a sort of perverse attraction, which is it's a meaty, substantive job with real responsibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snow Weighing White House Spokesman Job | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...upside is that for somebody like me who's been a pundit for many years, you sit around and you think about the way the world should be,? Snow continued. ?You become part of something that's very rare, which is an inner White House circle, where you've got to make decisions... So there is something that has a sort of perverse attraction, which is it's a meaty, substantive job with real responsibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush Chose Tony Snow as His New Spokesman | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...tough-mindedness for which Maliki is known will have to be matched with a political flexibility rare among Iraqi leaders if he is to have any chance of improving on Jaafari, however: He lacks a majority in the legislature, and will need to find allies on an issue-by-issue basis to pursue his legislative agenda. Since consensus is no easy feat in in light of the sectarian tensions of all of the major blocs in the legislative assembly, Maliki may simply end up commanding a weaker central government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet Iraq's New Boss — Same as the Old Boss | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...Drugs that failed to help during one hospital admission were presented as a fresh, hopeful idea the next time. If that could happen to a doctor's wife in a top hospital, he says, "I wonder more than ever what the average must be like. The errors were not rare. They were the norm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

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