Is there any way in Visual Studio 2003 that I can delete a line without it being copied into the clipboard?

There are instances when I want to copy the first line of a block of text and then delete the following n lines but this then puts the last line I deleted into the clipboard, which is very annoying. I have come from a brief keymap background and I could easily do this with Alt-D.

_{And while I'm on the subject, why on earth have MS stopped supporting the brief keymap?}