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...before Harvard could celebrate, the Crimson had to fend off a last-ditch rally from the Blue Jays. Harvard came through in the last minute and a half by winning the draw and running out the clock...
...these last-ditch efforts to salvage UMass water polo are unsuccesful, one of the nation’s premier water polo teams will have met an untimely demise...
Pentagon planners triggered alarms throughout the world last week with the leak of a document suggesting the U.S. wanted to greatly expand the battlefield use of nuclear weapons - and the countries it might use them against. The proposal was a radical departure from current nuclear military thinking that nuclear weapons are best used as a threat to keep others from attacking you. The U.S. nuclear arsenal had been developed principally as a last-ditch deterrent against a Soviet invasion of Europe, and the U.S. had promoted non-proliferation by pledging not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states...
This week seniors have begun to celebrate the infamous “last 100 days” of their Harvard careers. For the rest of the school year, every night there will be an event at a bar for seniors to gather, reminisce about meals in Annenberg, and wax nostalgic about all of the good-ol’ college days. Even more so, the events serve as a last-ditch attempt to get the proverbial “true college experience,” to go out with a bang, remembering college as an exuberant, debauchery-filled romp that somehow...
Prior to Appiah’s Friday announcement, students launched a last-ditch effort to keep him at Harvard...