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...draft? Come to think of it, why is there a draft?The answers to these questions I do not intend to address here—not only because I’m still pondering them, but because I’m pondering a wider arc.Using the playoff system, the sports seem to favor a quintessentially American approach to competing—a fierce one-off battle between two enemies, clearly defined, with a winner-takes-all scenario. Watching television coverage of these gargantuan clashes can also be an arduous process. Lobotomized by the tedium of repetitive advertisements almost every...
...quality health care system is derived around an academic medical center,” says Richard G. Mills, Dean for Operations and Business Affairs...
...alternatives offered by the government have failed to take pressure off the system. There are sea scatterings and ash burials in public gardens, but longstanding tradition prevents most families from taking up these space-saving solutions. "My husband didn't say much," says Wong's 75-year-old mother, Oi Tak-lo. "But he did say that he didn't want a sea burial. The older generation won't agree with...
...illegal in the Islamic Republic - Saberi was later charged with espionage, then quickly tried, found guilty and, on Saturday, sentenced to eight years in prison. But because Iranian appeals courts review both matters of law and fact (they are more like a retrial than an American-style appeals system), the appeals court could reduce or overturn Saberi's sentence on procedural grounds, charge her with lesser offenses, or even declare her not guilty. (See pictures of Ahmadinejad's visit to New York...
...Dakota and a former Miss America contestant. A woman with bikini photos of herself on the Internet is an unlikely choice for the CIA to send on covert operations to a conservative Islamic country where women have to wear head scarves in public. (See pictures of the health care system in Tehran...