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...Mary Landrieu of Lousiana and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and the increasingly hawkish Hillary Clinton of New York. The numbers left the GOP and the President short by 8 votes in their attempt to override the filibuster. As the clock ticked down Thursday night, the GOP leadership launched a last-ditch effort to swing Senators, threatening to let the law's sunsetted provisions expire entirely. "Tomorrow's vote is going to be the only vote," warned Frist aide Bob Stevenson...
...Until Thursday, the Bush administration maintained that its need to extract time-critical intelligence from suspected terrorists required it to skirt the Geneva Convention and other international niceties that obligated the administration to treat terrorists the same as conventional prisoners of war. In recent weeks, it has made a last-ditch effort to at least exempt intelligence agents from the more stringent guidelines...
...officials most worried--the so-called H5N1 strain--remains vastly greater in birds than humans. So far, 132 people in Southeast Asia and China are known to have been infected, and more than half of them have died. Meanwhile, millions of chickens and ducks have been slaughtered in a last-ditch attempt to keep the virus from spreading--an effort made more difficult by migrating flocks of wild birds that have carried the virus into Eastern Europe. The only reason more humans haven't died, say experts, is that this particular flu virus still has difficulty transmitting from one person...
...team’s penalty-killing success continued throughout the game, as Harvard killed all six of the Bears’ power-play opportunities. But the Crimson’s success was mainly a result of Daigneau’s key saves. With Brown mounting a last-ditch attack in the third period, his play kept the Bears at bay. In the middle of the period, a sprawling save was quickly followed by a big stop on a Brown 2-on-1. “[Daigneau] is getting more confident each time he goes out,” said Harvard...
...inexperience in the fact that we have a lot of younger players is part of it,” he added, “but it is something we need to improve on if we want to establish ourselves.”And when the trailing team mounts a last-ditch charge, the Crimson can’t stop moving forward.“I think we get cautious out there,” senior forward Charlie Johnson said. “We stop attacking, stop getting it deep in their zone and going after them. We kind...