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...other measures fail, Rudenstinesaid, Harvard will have to consider joining thebidding war and offering special scholarships forBlack students, "The bidding piece of it is what Iwould call the last, last resort," he said...
...boats were so close, in fact, the judges had to resort to instant replay to select a winner. Dartmouth and Harvard remained on the water for 10 minutes before the judges announced the Crimson victory...
...they were preparing for battle, though France said it was ready to send 1,100 more troops to join the 2,600 it has on duty in Yugoslavia. "This resolution," explained British Ambassador David Hannay, "does not prescribe the use of force. It merely authorizes it as a last resort...
Perez counsels teenagers to go public with their desire to quit a gang only as a last resort. "It beats getting killed or blowing somebody's brains out," he explains. Most antigang workers are adamantly against such advice under any conditions. "That would be like telling the kid to go kill himself," says Swope. Then there are folks like Marianne Diaz-Parton, a gang- intervention worker for the Community Youth Gang Services Project in Los Angeles, who actually condone the beatings...
...bunker near Berryville, Va., code-named "High Point" (see "Doomsday Hideaway," TIME, Dec. 9, 1991). Airborne command posts and reinforced communications ships stood by to receive the Commander in Chief and his advisers. Congress had its own top-secret relocation center buried beneath the Greenbrier, a five-star resort in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Outfitted with its own Senate and House chambers, as well as a vast hall for joint sessions, the facility was code-named "Casper," and only half a dozen members of Congress knew it existed...