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...door session that followed was described as a "lively exchange." British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told participants, "We believe that SALT II provides the basis for a good agreement, and we would very much regret it if the Americans felt obliged to break it." Shultz argued, to no avail. The room was unanimously, and strenuously, against...
...EPISODE underscores the enormity of our Catch-22. The terrorist threat is an amorphous, elusive one that leaves us few opportunities to fight back. When concrete targets avail themselves, the U.S. should strike, although in striking, we risk incurring reprisals that we are almost powerless to prevent...
While some of the council rounded up stray reps, a half dozen ventured into Harvard Square, searching for something far more important than parliamentary legitimacy: an ice cream parlor with a short line. To no avail. Emack and Bolio's, Herrell's, Baskin Robbin's, and Brigham's all had mile-long queues. And by the time the bunch arrived at Store 24, there were only four minutes remaining in the recess, so the group returned to Emerson 105 empty-handed and out of breath...
Over the opening 20 minutes, the Crimson (now 5-14 overall, 1-6 Ivy) employed a crushing defense, and prevented the Big Red (10-9 overall, 5-2 Ivy) from making even one lay-up: all to no avail...
...these and many other precautions as part of a losing battle. "My grandfather was bald," I figured. "So shall I be bald." I tried to console myself with visions of great bald men from history: Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Alan Brinkley. But to no avail. I was just not in their league. I would just be bald. Old and bald...