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...when charged with being anything other than completely tolerant, but this self-conception simply is not very realistic. We have all grown up in the same world, which tries to to teach us very intolerant values. We have all swallowed homophobic attitudes: straight, bi and gay alike. It is fruitless to waste energy sidetracking the issue to defend our egos to each other; we must take what we have and make it better. There is no use for complacency here, only improvement. Elizabeth Flax...
Harvard Tri-Captain Jen White faced only 12 shots on goal as compared to the Tigers' Kari Rosencranz, who had to contend with 36. Even a ploy on the part of Princeton to move leading scorer Molly Marcoux back to second line to exploit supposedly weaker opposition proved fruitless, save for a tally late in the third period...
WORLD: After more than nine years of fruitless fighting, the last Soviet troops head home from Afghanistan...
...fruitless search for the killer of Olof Palme has been a source of national anguish for Sweden since the Prime Minister was gunned down in February 1986. Last week hopes rose that the hunt was at an end when the Stockholm District Court arraigned Christer Pettersson, 41, an underworld debt collector with a criminal record that includes manslaughter. Said deputy chief prosecutor Axel Morath: "I think we now have...
Except for its scale, the proposed RJR breakup was like many of the fruitless paper-shuffling deals that have proliferated in the past decade. The management group is planning to take apart a merger, between RJR and Nabisco, that they hailed only three years ago as a brilliant strategic move. "What is being done threatens the very basis of our capitalist system," said John Creedon, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance company, which is suing RJR because the potential buyout has undermined the value of all bonds that the food and tobacco company sold before the announcement. Not everyone was alarmed...