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...behavior goes all the way back to childhood. With a little bit of luck, the jury may show some mercy. Kaczynski will probably not like all the talk about mental illness then any more than he does now. But at that point his lawyers will be engaged in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Their only hope is that he will let them do their...
...rest of the film follows Brackett as the strategically escalates the crisis to suit both his interests and (he thinks) those of the hapless Baily, who pulled the stunt only as a last-ditch effort to recover his job at the museum, and is bewildered by the chubbub he has created. Predictably, Brackett loses control of the media circus (complete with clowns, in this version), and the situation spins swiftly towards disaster...
Something about the way the defensive line blitzed Nakielny on Princeton's last-ditch drive with time expiring, something about the hits the secondary put on the Tiger wideouts as the clock wound down, something about the way Menick and the offensive line's uniforms looked like something out of a Tide commercial made you believe Murphy's faith...
...enough to reinforce the South. So U.S. negotiators in Oslo asked the drafters of the treaty for exceptions that would, in effect, allow the U.S. to use such mines in Korea for 19 more years and would exempt antipersonnel weapons when they are used to protect antitank mines. This last-ditch wiggling from Washington got nowhere, and 89 countries approved the ban, which is to be signed in Ottawa in December...
Therefore, friends and family of Alan Kuo are making a last-ditch effort to recruit as many Asian-American donors as possible...