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...when might Yi Jianlian don an NBA uniform? That depends on the biggest mystery of all: his age. The national junior-team roster says Yi was born on Oct. 27, 1987, which would make him just 15--and not eligible to enter the NBA draft independently as an international player until 2009. Several well-placed Chinese basketball experts say he is 17 or 18. Dates are manipulated, they claim, to give Yi more years of eligibility for junior competitions, which China counts on to increase its international prestige. (Age shaving is endemic in international junior competitions. It even affected...
Today, despite occasional griping from tired troops in Iraq, every member of the U.S. military is there willingly (except for at least 65,000 who have been kept involuntarily in uniform because they are hard-to-replace specialists like linguists, air-crew members or medical workers). With soldiers now serving 50% longer than they did in the Vietnam era, the Pentagon invests heavily in career-length education and training, helping the troops master the complicated technology that makes the U.S. military the envy of the world. --By Mark Thompson/Washington
After a series of altercations with Byrne near Boston College in the fall of 2001, Trombly—then a junior economics concentrator—was arrested for a number of charges including assault and battery on a police officer. Byrne said again yesterday that Trombly spit on his uniform and swatted at his hand when he came to break up a noisy party on Commonwealth Avenue for the second night...
Andrew Okhotin also said he saw a man wearing a customs uniform go into Yakovlev's chambers a few hours before the judge appeared to state his verdict...
Byrne accused Trombly of spitting on his uniform while he was patrolling outside the apartment of one of Trombly’s friends, an accusation Trombly denied...