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...reinforce the South. So U.S. negotiators in Oslo asked the drafters of the treaty for exceptions that would, in effect, allow the U.S. to use such mines in Korea for 19 more years and would exempt antipersonnel weapons when they are used to protect antitank mines. This last-ditch wiggling from Washington got nowhere, and 89 countries approved the ban, which is to be signed in Ottawa in December...
Therefore, friends and family of Alan Kuo are making a last-ditch effort to recruit as many Asian-American donors as possible...
...wind down our awards presentation, we'd like to offer some advice for our hep-cat profs. Ditch buzz phrases such as "politics of identity" or "in postmodern thought." Don't use more than one set of quotation marks per blurb. Take a lesson in candor from Professor Willie...
...time to buy an S&P 500 index fund. I would be wary of all stocks at current levels, and if I were desperate to buy something, I'd probably choose a road slightly less traveled, say a small-company or overseas index fund. But I certainly wouldn't ditch my S&P 500 fund--which has minted gold for three years and may mint a lot more before it's exhausted--on the faulty logic that what goes up highest must come down hardest...
...private board meetings this month, the PBHA's board of trustees considered an alternative proposal to last June's resolution allowing the organization to hire and pay its own staff--a "last ditch" effort by student leaders to reach a compromise with the College, according to Amanda Spector '98, PBHA secretary...