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...money, while clearly having no intention of doing so. On a disastrous yachting trip on which Tom gets sunstroke, Philipe throws Marg's manuscript overboard, and Marg demands to be put ashore, it becomes clear that the tension between Philipe and Tom will soon lead to a drastic measure on one of their parts. A marooning, a stabbing, a forgery, a feigned suicide, a seduction, a framing and what seems like "the perfect crime" are all necessary to sate their rivalry...
...Dole considered several drastic options, a senior Red Cross official says, including a proposal to sever the Red Cross's historic link to the nation's blood supply by setting up the blood unit as an independent operation. Instead, Mrs. Dole announced a sweeping campaign to modernize and centralize blood operations and improve the training of blood staff, a revolutionary effort that threatened to bankrupt the blood operation--the equivalent of a $1 billion company--and alienate its outlying blood banks, accustomed to a high level of autonomy. At a time of great worry about the blood supply, the bold...
...share of bumps and bruises, but at times it seems that the Crimson had theirs--and then some. Defensemen Melissa Milbert and Colleen Malek missed most of the season with knee problems, cutting the Harvard blue line nearly in half. That forced the Crimson to compensate with drastic measures such as having junior superstar A.J. Mleczko stay in for two shifts--one at center and one at defense...
Students urging Harvard toward more ethnic studies in the curriculum say conciliatory tactics are just not working. They imply that drastic action may be required for the University to create an ethnic studies concentration...
...said of the drastic environmental crisis as he described its manifestations. "This is the ultimate bad trip...