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With U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s stalwart support, Congress reinstated draft registration for eligible men aged 19 and 20 starting July 21, 1980. The draft had been abolished in 1974, near the end of the Vietnam...
...John Wagner has four outbreaks of jolting violence to give some kick to a penetrating character study; and that the real Joey Cusack has a savory showdown with his mob-boss brother Richie (played by William Hurt with a rich pleasure in menace). Mortensen, whose Tom is as stalwart as his Middle-Earth Aragorn, is completely convincing and utterly hunky -a man worth loving, no matter...
...group’s only real interactions with the crowd. It wasn’t so much that they seemed cold or distant, which happens so often, as that songs began one after the other, and it was only after the first few that Oldham acknowledged the stalwart fans before...
...Lamont is definitely the closest thing this campus has to a student center,” explains stalwart Trevor J. Walsh ’06. “It’s got all the amenities you’d expect from a common social space—cell-phone yelling, VIP bathrooms, and the ability to drink beverages out of properly sealed containers...
...says Charles Osgood, the CBS Sunday-night TV anchor who also does wry, and often rhyming, commentaries on CBS radio each weekday morning. "If someone told me I couldn't do any more TV, I'd be unhappy. But if I had to choose, it would be radio." Another stalwart of the medium, News Commentator Paul Harvey is a surviving link to an earlier era of network radio. On the air for more than 40 years, he is the most widely heard personality on radio, carried on some 1,100 stations. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the pixieish sex therapist, was launched...