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...enlisted Ron Shapiro as his advisor. While NCAA rules prohibit amateur athletes from hiring an official agent, college players are allowed to retain an advisor. Crockett consulted Shapiro, a well-known agent who has counted future Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. and the Red Sox’ Trot Nixon among his clients...
...they privately savor the political rewards that the storms will blow in their direction. Such hypocritical tears were more effectively shed when the world was not in the constant glare of television. These days some of them are barely able to keep a thin smile hidden while they trot out pompous phrases of concern, interjected by poison - words that send private signals to their violent constituency. The camera shows...
Still, free traders like me--and like most of the business and government leaders who will gather in New York City at the end of the month for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum--shouldn't just trot out our beliefs as if they were some divine revelation. If we are honest, we need to confront two uncomfortable truths. The first is that globalization has losers as well as winners. When an economy first opens itself up to international competition through trade, those in protected industries and traditional occupations may indeed see declines in their income. Second, there...
...previous statements are any guide, Ashcroft will most likely trot out the same tired platitudes that the enormity of the crimes committed and the necessity of preventing future attacks justify any abridgement of constitutional rights. He has already argued that the regulations should not be that alarming because only a very small number of people will be affected. It should not be forgotten, however, that the people in custody have not necessarily been convicted of any crime. In many cases, they have not even been told the crime of which they are accused...
...there was a pervasive sense that things weren't as they had been. How could they be, when the President gave the Pentagon the authority to shoot down any hijacked civilian airliner? Pundits quickly learned to trot out the phrase "homeland security," with its faintly Orwellian overtones. And, as often happens in national emergencies, the desire of law enforcement for a free hand bumped into the rights and protections set down by men in wigs in the late 18th century...