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...lair is the underground of an amusement park replete with maniacal roller-coaster rides with all those innocent kiddy-overtones that work pretty well in horror scenes. But in a movie which fails to provide the groundwork for such a fantastical image, the kiddie rides comes off as a last-ditch attempt to revive a movie that is already D.O.A...
...city's complicated voting system, called proportional representation, remains in dispute. McSweeney, who came in 10th in the council race and trailed Walsh by only 47 votes in the election, will appear this afternoon before the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the state's highest judicial body, in a last-ditch attempt to prevent Galluccio from being sworn...
...recount coincided with a last-ditch effort by McSweeney--who had come in 10th in the original election--to challenge the constitutionality of the city's voting system, called proportional representation, in court...
Visiting Bosnia on a last-ditch peace mission, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali weathered a rude reception from all sides
...unexpectedly, the City of Cambridge is attempting a massive last-ditch effort to save rent control. In response to the passage of Question 9 in the recent statewide referendum which abolished the practice, Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, City Manager Robert W. Healy and City Councillor Jonathan S. Meyers are among those teaming with House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge) in the crusade to defend the failed policy...