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Clarkson has been hot as of late, in a last-ditch effort to repeat as regular season champion. The Golden Knights handily dispatched Yale and Princeton last weekend (6-2 and 4-0, respectively...
...conveying a message was not the first priority of demonstrators yesterday; they were simply interested in getting attention for one last-ditch effort to attract support for their respective candidates. All the major candidates had large representations along the busy thoroughfare, but those groups were joined by those favoring minor candidates, non-candidates or no candidates...
...Communist deputies to pass its legislation. Unlike Communist parties in Italy and Spain, France's apparatus has no plans to change its name. Forty-six of France's 226 largest cities, including Bobigny, remain in Communist Party hands. And there, the mood is a mixture of nostalgic regret and last-ditch defiance...
Then there's the last-ditch option: going back home to Mom and Dad. This generation hasn't been afraid to do so -- Census reports show 75% of males 18 to 24 years old still live at home. But people mostly want to be on their own around that age. "All year long I swore that whatever I did, I wouldn't be living at home," says Natasha Pustilnik, 21, a Vassar College senior. Guess where she'll be this summer. "It's enormously disappointing," says the jobless Russian major...
...before the January 15 deadline for Saddam Hussein to withdraw his forces from Kuwait did Congress really debate the direction that U.S. policy should take in the region. And by then, it was far too late to effect any meaningful change in policy. Congress had two choices at this last-ditch meeting: continue to give Bush free rein in determining war policy, or suddenly change course and shackle the president and the United National in the 11th hour before the deadline...