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...talked, couriers on motorbikes kept putting into the courtyard bearing fresh news. The Iraqis aren't even at their new front line. "There's no one there," said one scout. "They have pulled back several kilometers more, behind a big ditch," another said. "The line will be on the city limits by morning." The city is Kirkuk, just west of here, a major Kurdish city controlled by Iraq...
...Last-Ditch Effort...
...test of Iraqi compliance with UN disarmament demands, which comes in a more crucial week for the Bush administration's efforts to win UN authorization for war. Buoyed by the strongly antiwar tilt of public opinion in Europe and beyond, France, Germany and Russia continue to resist moves to ditch the inspection process and authorize an invasion. But for domestic political reasons, even such staunch Bush allies as Britain's Tony Blair and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi have pressed Washington to seek a second UN resolution before going to war. Unable to secure passage of a resolution authorizing...
...informed them that their program had been cut. An hour later, they called in both the men’s and women’s swim teams, informed them of their elimination, and requested that they go quietly. If this were truly “a last ditch effort” by administrators, they disguised it well...
...part of the story that isn’t told—possibly because it detracts from heroic student activism—is that Wright and Larimore have expressed significant personal regret about the decision and have explained that it was not a hasty solution but was a last-ditch effort after other alternatives failed...