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...University may find a paper wall erected around its current campus. Chances are, had the exemption been repealed 15 years ago. Mather House would not have been built. Certainly Harvard would have had a much more difficult time constructing the Radcliffe Gym, which powerless neighbors squawked about to small avail. And 7 Sumner Rd. would probably still be an apartment building--and nothing else...
When residents of the Mission Hill and Brookline area caught wind of Fierra's decision, they cried out in anger but to little avail...
...STOOD ALONE on the stage in Montreal's smoke-filled Paul Sauve Arena, cigarette absent, trying to start his speech to no avail. "Mes chers amis," he said several times in an attempt to quiet the crowd's thunder. After a quarter of an hour, Rene Levesque, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois and premier of Quebec, finally launched into his concession of defeat in Tuesday's province-wide referendum. "Until next time," he told his supporters, eliciting another raucous round of applause...
...Chairman Yasser Arafat visited Baghdad last November in an effort to convince Iraq not to try to seize the disputed islands; he also visited Riyadh and asked the Saudis not to support such a move. Arafat has even offered to mediate the present dispute, but so far to no avail. Last week neither side appeared to be in any hurry to cool off. Retorted Saddam Hussein in response to Iran's threats to destroy his regime: "Whoever raises a hand against Iraq will have his arm chopped...
...THAT it hasn't been tried. In 1787 James Madison fought--unsuccessfully--to empower Congress to supplant state charters of corporations with federal charters when the public good required them. In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt suggested--to no avail--that "the Government should have the right to inspect and examine the workings of the great corporations engaged in interstate commerce." Thirty-seven years later, populist Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney proposed a more far-reaching program called the "National Charters for National Business." It bombed...