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...part of the story that isn’t told—possibly because it detracts from heroic student activism—is that Wright and Larimore have expressed significant personal regret about the decision and have explained that it was not a hasty solution but was a last-ditch effort after other alternatives failed...
...part of the story that isn’t told—possibly because it detracts from heroic student activism—is that Wright and Larimore have expressed significant personal regret about the decision and have explained that it was not a hasty solution but was a last-ditch effort after other alternatives failed...
...term, however, administrators must do more than give lip service to finding dance a new home; they must guarantee Harvard will do anything and everything possible to ensure the life of the program. Illingworth said Harvard is considering certain local church spaces as one possible temporary solution. If their last-ditch efforts fail, the College must actively consider a renegotiation of its Rieman Center lease. Although Radcliffe has legitimate claims to the center, such as the desire to have its faculty in close proximity to one another, Harvard simply cannot afford to give up on dance in the short-term...
Some employers have managed to avoid layoffs altogether by asking all their workers to sacrifice. Patrice Tanaka, 50, who runs her own New York City public-relations firm, began trimming costs last year by deferring tech upgrades and bonuses. She then snipped staff perks like free bagel breakfasts, ice cream, yoga--even the fresh flowers that once perfumed the loft offices. It wasn't enough. In a last-ditch effort to hold on to her staff of 40, she asked her partners to swallow a 20% pay cut and other workers to forgo 10%. "It's not a Utopia...
...even a last-ditch campaign push across the state by Jesse Jackson and former President Bill Clinton could galvanize enough of the Democratic base to save McBride. The campaign even rallied around hundreds of detaine Haitian refugees in Miami last week in a not-so-subtle effort to raise the kind of massive black voter turnout that helped Al Gore run neck-and-neck with George W. Bush in Florida two years...