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...last-ditch effort to stave off the impending renovations of the Freshman Union, a group of alums met in Mass. Hall on Monday afternoon with President Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp...
Well, have I got validation for you. Several of the country's most powerful lawyers, in briefs and in oral argument before the Supreme Court last week, trotted out those stereotypes and more in a last-ditch attempt to save the 157-year-old, state-supported Virginia Military Institute as an all-male preserve. According to VMI's argument, women respond more naturally to an "ethic of care" than to an egalitarian "ethic of justice," and those few women who are confident need to go to a women's school to be "reminded" that female "leadership" carries "the hazard...
...Group, a defunct St. Louis, Missouri, engineering firm, former president Malcolm Cheek stole $600,000 through schemes like pledging company assets as collateral for loans that he pocketed. When he later ran into severe cash-flow problems, Cheek ransacked $254,000 from the 401(k) accounts in a last-ditch effort to cover his losses. Convicted last March, he is serving a nine-year prison term for fraud and embezzlement...
Meanwhile, as longtime protectors of Medicare, Democrats have image problems of their own. With just a month to go before Congress is expected to vote on the Medicare reform proposal, they are scrambling to oppose it with a proposal that last week seemed a little more than oppositionism. In a last-ditch effort to mobilize health-care providers against the House G.O.P. plan, Clinton's chief of staff Leon Panetta convened a White House meeting with industry lobbyists and a representative of the American Association of Retired Persons. One health-care lobbyist told him he was too late...
...echoed by that of Senator John McCain. The Senator is a longtime supporter of Native Americans but also a card-carrying conservative Republican. Says he: "The Indians are taking it in the neck." This week representatives of more than 200 tribes will flood the nation's capital in a last-ditch attempt to influence the conference that will reconcile the House and Senate versions of the cuts. But unless they provoke a huge public outcry, most of the cuts will probably stand, and the fortunes of an already unfortunate people may take another drastic downturn...