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...this was a turning point in the case. "If you look back," he says, "people at that time understood this is gonna be a war. When it came to issues of race it was not gonna be any patty-cake." The war would climax over the Fuhrman tapes, a pyrrhic victory for the prosecution. Says defense lawyer and Santa Clara University law-school dean Gerald Uelmen: "When I think of how close we came to not having those tapes, it sends shivers down my spine...
...from Texas oil billionaire Lee M. Bass. Scrambling to put a spin on the fiasco, Yale claimed that giving back the money, intended to endow a new program in Western Civilization, was an act of courage in the face of unreasonable demands. Some critics of the administration claimed a Pyrrhic victory for multiculturalism. At heart, though, it was managerial ineptitude and a clash of egos that ruined the deal...
Beating the Republicans still meant opposing a popular notion, though nobody on the Democratic side is saying out loud the words Pyrrhic victory. "It's a big victory," figures one senior White House official. "We'll pay for it later, of course." Or sooner-one day after the vote, G.O.P. radio ads were running in the states of six Democrats who supported the amendment when it came to a vote two years ago but changed sides this time. Since none of the six face re-election next year, they can brush off the attacks for now. But one Senate Democrat...
Stories like this make us wish that the Harvard team hadn't done anything at all, to save us the humiliation. Sure, now we have a grey and yellow flag, but the price we paid renders this little escapade a Pyrrhic victory (especially for the broken-nosed conspirator...
Here's hoping that the owners don't lose sight of the fact that whatever labor victories they may enjoy could prove to be completely pyrrhic in nature...