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There's a lesson in this somewhere, a parable about how the Middle East conflict has a way of metastasizing. The World Conference on Racism looked set for disaster Tuesday despite a last-gasp scramble by South African officials to find compromise language on the Middle East. Passages in the conference's draft declaration singling out Israel and Zionism for condemnation prompted the U.S. and Israel to walk out of the U.N.-sponsored event in Durban, South Africa on Monday - a move which was, in turn, harshly criticized by both friend and foe. While European nations share Washington's concern...
...Thoke was better. She kept the Big Red off the scoreboard until the bottom of the seventh, and shut down a last-gasp Cornell rally with her 11th strikeout of the afternoon. Harvard...
...labels hadn't yet figured out how to fully control and stifle with accountants. But at the same time the Brill Building-type songwriters for hire, which included some of the finest pop-music talent America ever produced, were still cranking out songs by the yard in a last-gasp bid for teen immortality. The time was ripe for a naïve and yet monstruously successful hybrid, and Bob Rafelson knew...
...There are, of course, vehement objections to the far-reaching order, which many see as the President's bid to hijack the legacy created by Teddy Roosevelt's use of similar executive orders at the turn of the century. Others accuse the President of last-gasp politicking in an attempt to boost his own profile on way or another - if the floundering Mideast peace talks won't give cement his legacy, critics gripe, perhaps he thinks this move will...
...Harvard's last-gasp drive, senior quarterback Brad Wilford, who completed 17 of 30 passes on the day for 183 yards, completed a 19-yard pass to senior split end Terence Patterson, who ran out of bounds with 11 seconds remaining. Wilford again connected, this time for 21 yards to freshman Carl Morris, who was tackled at the Cornell...