At one extreme, the Supreme Court extended First Amendment protection to the words of a man who physically resisted arrest during an anti-war protest at a draft induction center.
Worried that the authorities might shut the center down when he went public, Mr. Dmitriev showed a draft to the head of the center's board, a former government official and still a close Putin ally.
With the first pick in the 2007 draft the Blazers chose promising center Greg Oden.
Finally, Moneyball-like analytics may take center stage in draft rooms or in booths above the field that may resemble a control room, with analysts who put the pieces together in real time while watching banks of computer and television screens.
Reese sounded more annoyed than ominous while addressing his wide receiver's contract status during his annual pre-draft press conference at the Timex Performance Center.
"There's still a lot of hockey to be played, and, as short as the season is, if we get our points, we can get in, " said center John Tavares, the 2009 first-overall draft choice.
Dieng, a junior center from Senegal, is expected to enter the NBA draft after the season.
It's as if Tavares, a 22-year-old center and the No. 1 pick in the 2009 draft, spent three years inside a dark cocoon before emerging as a fully formed superstar this season.
My comments will include the first release of a late draft of an Addendum to that report, produced by the new Center for the Study of Public Science and Public Policy (PSPP) here at the Cato Institute.
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Okposo clicked on a line that included center Frans Nielsen and left wing Josh Bailey, another first-round draft choice, and he was even better after Islanders coach Jack Capuano switched Bailey and Matt Moulson for Game 2 against the Penguins.
They fired off a memo under the longwinded title, "How Best to Express the Department's Privacy and Civil Liberties Concerns over Draft Guidelines Proposed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center, " according to an email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
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Another kind of sweepstakes took place in the NBA in 1997: the draft lottery for the rights to pick the consensus best player in the country, Wake Forest center Tim Duncan.
The Mets' 2010 No. 1 draft pick (seventh overall) didn't allow a baserunner until Everth Cabrera singled to center field leading off the fourth and faced 22 batters, one over the minimum.
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