Word: attempted
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Harvard should relax. Most of the Ivy teams have had their ups and (mostly) downs over the last few weeks. Cornell barely squeaked out a win over Lafayette last weekend--thanks to a field goal attempt that went two feet wide--and was shut out by Northeastern the week before. Both Princeton and Dartmouth fared worse against the Crusaders of Holy Cross than Harvard did. Penn barely beat winless Columbia last Saturday. And Brown is riding a 12-game losing streak...
...believe there was any tragedy in Tiananmen Square," declared Jiang. The incident, he went on, was the "unavoidable" consequence of the attempt by some demonstrators to "overthrow the socialist system." He likened media reports about the situation in Beijing to "fairy tales from the Arabian Nights...
...rethinking their opposition to placing black children with white parents. In 1972 the National Association of Black Social Workers charged that "transracial adoption" was a kind of cultural genocide that deprived black children of their racial heritage. At least 35 states imposed regulations requiring social workers to make every attempt to place children with parents of the same race. Transracial adoptions of all kinds dropped from a high of 2,540 in 1971 to less than half that number in recent years...
...that the New York Times was giving front-page play to both air accidents last month, it carried three paragraphs at the bottom of an inside page about rebel action in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed twelve people and wounded 17. Also in the crash aftermath, an alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso that led to the execution of the second and third highest officers of government rated two paragraphs. Murders of Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia were cited in part of one paragraph in a more general story. That was in the Times, which excels in foreign coverage: in many other...
...moral issue involved here? Or is this simply a reflection of a pragmatic attempt by editors to echo the values and interests of their readers? And does it really make a difference whether Americans know about disasters elsewhere? It certainly does when it comes to amassing donations or building a congressional coalition for emergency relief. It also matters in a less material way because every social contract, from the tribe to the United Nations, is based on recognizing common human bonds. Whether the fault lies with news consumers or with editors who pander to them, the bell ought to toll...