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Harvard prevailed in a last-ditch effort to protect the secrecy of its tenure process when a Mass. superior court judge ruled on Friday to send former Assistant Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz's lawsuit against the University to an appeals court...
After two hours of highly visible public maneuvering, members hammered out a last-ditch compromise, extending a system that randomizes the placement of new high school students for two more years. The measure--passed by a five to two vote at 2:15 a.m. yesterday morning--leaves the committee's options open for whether or not to reinstate choice in the future...
Fortunately, New York has come up with a last-ditch solution--which, surprisingly, may be the wave of the future. Despite local community opposition, the New York power authority is racing to install 10 individual generators around the city, each capable of producing 44 megawatts. The system is tailor-made for New York, which is plagued by bottlenecks on its aging transmission lines that often make it hard to import power...
...combination of antiviral drugs have to stop, either because their bodies cannot tolerate the toxic side effects or because they cannot keep up with the grueling regimen of strictly scheduled pill popping. An additional 30% to 50% are currently in salvage therapy, which is what AIDS specialists call the last-ditch potions of drug cocktails given to patients who have become resistant, one by one, to every class of antiviral on the market. "We have, by treating lots of individuals relatively successfully for varying periods of time, accumulated a new target of patients now in desperate need of new options...
...progress in President Clinton?s last-ditch Mideast peace effor is measured in statements of commitment to peace, then headway is indeed being made. But as the Palestinian leader prepared to leave Washington Wednesday after a day of intense talks at the White House, there?s little reason to believe that Israelis and Palestinians are any closer to actually concluding the final peace deal to which Clinton has dedicated the final three weeks of his presidency...