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...someday, when they finally hit it big, they can lie on a California beach and soak up the sun. But the Thrills hit the beach early - and that's where they found their sound. In the summer of 1999, the five young Dubliners headed to San Diego in a last-ditch effort to keep their band together. They rented a small beach house, dragged an old couch onto the sand and spent four months listening to everything from Bob Dylan to Burt Bacharach. Returning home, they wrote songs that oozed California sunshine. Four years later, with their single...
...with the fighting already having returned to pre-cease-fire levels, Mariani and her neighbors are preparing to flee the "peace zone." Last week, under the auspices of a Geneva-based nongovernmental organization, Indonesian officials and representatives of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) turned up in Tokyo for a last-ditch attempt to head off renewed conflict. But the chances of the two sides reaching a compromise are minuscule. Jakarta is promising only a measure of autonomy, and insists that the separatist group first unconditionally disarm. GAM, which insists on independence for Aceh, will almost certainly refuse to do this...
...students claim that they approached Blackboard when they first discovered the problem, but that the company was unreceptive to their findings. They say that threatening to share the information with other hackers was a last-ditch effort to get the company’s attention. In its statement, Blackboard acknowledges the frequent cooperation between hackers and technology firms in improving security, but its response to this incident offers little evidence that it is truly willing to engage in such cooperation...
...squat, chain-smoking diabetic and former army driver, Chemical Ali has been outranked as a trusted deputy to Saddam only by the Iraqi leader's younger son Qusay. At Saddam's 65th-birthday celebration last year in his hometown of Tikrit, al-Majid stood in for the dictator who was fearful of an assassination attempt. As part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to shore up support for Baghdad, alMajid made recent trips to Libya and Syria but reportedly spent part of the time handing out millions of dollars to build support for his having a leadership role in post...
...Last-Ditch Effort...