Word: attempted
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Thernstrom has defined racial insensitivity in terms of his own limited understanding, measured himself within these terms, and found himself not guilty. But he never stepped outside of those terms, never attempted to understand the source of the complaint. Instead he has turned the whole situation full circle, proclaimed himself victim, and resorted to childish name-calling and irrational comparisons. "McCarthyism of the left" and "witch-hunt" are more than a little extreme. The complaint is not an attempt to spitefully purge society of outsiders, nor is it xenophobia, nor is it fear of something unseen. This is not politics...
...last few years, the rugby team has made strides to make the sport respectable. The team's latest drive for success involved an unsuccessful attempt to gain varsity status...
...after the Civil War, the rebel battle flag still waves -- beneath the Stars and Stripes -- at Alabama's state capitol in Montgomery. For black Alabamans, however, that bit of pre-emancipation nostalgia is not an endearing sight. Last week, Representative Thomas Reed led 13 other black legislators in an attempt to scale the capitol dome and strike the rebel colors. Before a crowd of 2,000, some shouting "Nigger go home!," state troopers arrested the group for trespass. Later, the Alabama house, voting 67 to 17 along racial lines, defeated a measure to remove the flag...
...State of the State address last month, Mecham made a rare attempt at contrition. "If I had to do it over, I would have realized earlier that style is sometimes as important as substance," he said. "How things are said is sometimes as important as what is said." Just one day later, the old Mecham promptly re-emerged, telling a startled audience how a group of Japanese "got round eyes" when they discussed golf. Embarrassed Arizonans could only hope that the end is in sight...
...realize -- or most doctors are willing to admit. J.A.M.A. Editor George Lundberg says his own staff split over whether or not to publish the piece. But two medical peer- review panels urged him to publish it. Lundberg, who believes the anonymous account is genuine (though J.A.M.A. has made no attempt to verify it), decided to go ahead. "My intent was to produce vigorous debate on a timely topic," he says. "We are technologically capable of prolonging dying at great cost with little apparent benefit...