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Only twice did Columbia runners reach scoring position, and each time they were left stranded. In the first, the Lions got runners to first and third before Watkins got Valerie Smith to ground out to third. Columbia mounted a last-ditch rally in the seventh, getting a runner to second with two outs, but Watkins again snuffed the Lions by inducing a ground ball to third...
...last-ditch effort to galvanize Iraqi pols, Rice and Straw traveled to Baghdad together over the weekend in the hopes that their combined clout would make an impact where individual visits, calls and messages through envoys had failed. To keep their mission secret, they waited until well after dark Saturday to take off from Liverpool, where Straw had been showing Rice around his constituency. They used Rice?s 757 and, knowing that Straw was suffering from a lingering bronchial infection, she insisted he sleep on the pull-out bed in her cabin. To his embarrassment, Straw learned only the next...
...freshmen are treated to a brief lecture and hour-long discussion on the essays, which are then quickly tossed aside in favor of more alluring texts like CUE guides, course catalogs, and ever-handy copies of “Writing with Sources.”Today, Harvard makes one last-ditch attempt to force students to think critically about ethics through the Moral Reasoning core. There, students are asked to question their own beliefs. What is justice? If there is no God, is all permitted? And other such quandaries.Under the new General Education plan proposed by the Committee on General...
...cultural revolution will save the family firm, which, like General Motors, seems to have all but lost a 30-year war with Toyota and other foreign companies for dominance of the U.S. auto market. This week he is unveiling a plan, which he calls the "Way Forward," a last-ditch effort to save the company by taking some big chances. Ford has surrendered market share in the U.S. but figures that a smaller, more innovative company can stir more passion among its customers...
Garcia said yesterday that the defendant’s last-ditch effort was a distortion of the truth and nothing more than legal strategy...