Word: attempted
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...there’s no need to wait for November for a fierce rivalry. Tonight, the Crimson (0-1) faces Brown, with whom they shared last year’s Ivy League title. The Bears (1-0) handed Harvard its only loss last season, stopping a two-point conversion attempt that would have tied the game in the final minute...
...third defendant, Jabrai J. Copney, 20, has been in custody in Massachusetts since May 21. He was indicted on June 26 by a Middlesex Superior Court Grand Jury on counts of first degree murder, accessory after the fact of murder, attempt to commit a crime, armed robbery, and possession of a firearm...
...speed of the game should raise our level of play,” Caples said. Despite a rough start, freshman goalkeeper Cynthia Tassopoulos recorded 23 saves, six more than she made in her first four games combined. “[The high number of shot attempts] was expected from such a strong team as UConn, but I felt like our defense really stepped up and minimized [Connecticut’s] opportunities to score,” Tassopoulos said. Both Goodman-Bacon and Caples felt last night was Tassopoulos’ strongest performance of the season...
...worth speculating how the well-documented phenomenon of Ostalgie - nostalgia for the former communist state - will fare in these cities during what will be a reflective few weeks. As memories of the old regime fade, there has naturally been an attempt to re-evaluate the D.D.R.'s legacy. In recent years, films like 2003's Good Bye Lenin!, a wry telling of reunification's effects on an East German family, have captured the imaginations of fashionable urbanites. Others have professed an occasionally ironic love for old East German aesthetics - communist-era branding, old Wartburg and Trabant cars, and vintage Praktika...
...memoir of his own political career next month. Enduring hatred between the two men stretches back to the mid-1970s; each has waged a campaign of electoral war and political brawling against the other ever since. The Princess and the President, some pundits say, is Giscard's newest attempt to steal the limelight from his nemesis...