New York wanted to draft a linebacker last month after it lost middle linebacker Chase Blackburn to free agency and released weakside linebacker Michael Boley.

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And he'd written a draft of a novel about a young boy who had lost his father to a heart attack.

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Washington, which lost its first-rounder in last year's deal to draft Robert Griffin III, went for defensive back David Amerson of North Carolina State at No. 51 overall.

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Certainly the new draft European Union constitution, voted down twice in three days in France and the Netherlands, is a lost cause.

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