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...free throws to put the Lions up four, Monti drove the length the court, and tried a lay-in, but she was off. After getting her own rebound, she was leveled by Pickney down low, but there was no call. Columbia got the ball, and the Harvard last-ditch effort was finished...
...Green would add an empty-netter in the game's final minute, as the Crimson launched a failed last-ditch effort to tie the game...
...call themselves girls, gays can talk about "gaydar," the scanning device that divides the world by sexual orientation on the basis of superficial characteristics. Straights and straight presidential candidates are generally more circumspect. But McCain's remarks constituted at most a mild distraction, barely diverting him from his last-ditch effort to shame Governor George W. Bush into a fair fight in New York by helping McCain get on the ballot there. Gay political leaders didn't make an issue of it. Kevin Ivers, press spokesman for the gay Log Cabin Republicans, who favor McCain, said, "Any gay who jumps...
...zeal to promote Boston-themed plays, Altman thought he found an easy answer in the colorful Last Hurrah, the notorious parody of four-time Boston mayor James Michael Curley's last-ditch bid for re-election. What he got, however, was an unreasonably large and unmanageable cast of characters, many of whom are demoted to ornamental, cardboard cut-out status in the three-hour world of the theatre. There's Amos Force (Keith Perry), the conservative Yankee who will do whatever it takes to see the Irish mayor lose; Francis Jr. (John P. Arnold), the mayor's playboy, finger-snapping...
...page. Radar data released by the NTSB late Wednesday showed that EgyptAir Flight 990 plunged precipitously at nearly the speed of sound for 16,000 feet, but then climbed about a mile - and possibly began breaking up in midair - before falling into the ocean. That might suggest a last-ditch attempt by the crew to gain control of the stricken craft, which could have broken up under structural stress if the pilot had attempted to pull too quickly out of a 700-mph dive. But the cause of that initial dive - like everything else associated with Flight 990's final...