Word: attempted
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...worst offenders, not only do not appreciate or understand what it means to prove something, but they believe it is wrongheaded to try to do so. For the defenders of critical legal studies, the type of scientific inquiry praciticed in the natural sciences is a misguided thing to attempt when inquiring into the social world...
...think that both of the CLS dogmas--that scientific knowledge is impossible or meaningless and that the attempt to get it inevitably leads to defeatism and illegitimate justifications of the status quo--are deeply pernicious, and have to be combatted in legal education. It is very bad to indoctrinate students with these attitudes. --from a symposium at the 1984 Federalist Society Meeting, printed in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring...
Recognizing the widespread nature of anti-Semitism in modern society, the new Church document condemns it as "the most tragic form that racist ideology has assumed in our century." In an attempt to dispel the myth that the Catholic Church was supposedly complacent in the face of Nazi racism, the document notes that Popes Pius XI and Pius XII condemned Nazi anti-Semitism in four official statements between...
These tactics might suffice if you were dealing with the run-of-the-mill Harvard liberal cause--say, the drive to force the final clubs to admit women. But the administration's attempts to tamper with the sacred housing lottery are far more insidious than all their past transgressions combined. The new plan is nothing less than an attempt to control the housing choices (and thus the lives!) of Harvard students...
...current structure of public service on campus is problematic for a number of reasons. Supporting two separate parallel structures is inherently a drain on resources. Extra layers of bureaucracy are needed to coordinate between the two organizations in an attempt to minimize duplication of services which still occur. With efforts spread between creating the HAND structure and strengthening PBHA's infrastructure, there is insufficient progress in both...