Word: attempting
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...recorded another six rebounds against the Quakers to go along with two steals and one block, the latter coming on the game's final play when Monti swatted a desperation three-point attempt by Penn sophomore guard Erin Ladley at the buzzer...
After falling short in its furious comeback attempt at Princeton, the Crimson had to muster up all its energy to take on Penn at the Palestra in Philadelphia...
Despite going into the break on a somewhatpositive note, Harvard did not look in any shapeto mount a comeback attempt as it did in Princetonthe night before. The Crimson frontline ofClemente, Ewing and Coleman combined for ninefouls between them and was noticeably fatiguedagainst the strong Penn frontline...
That's no way to avenge a lost battle--unless, of course, you have already won the war. Daschle and his 43 Democratic colleagues may have failed in their attempt to dismiss the case against Bill Clinton, but in that vote and four others, Democrats held together (well, except for the free-spirited Russ Feingold), making it virtually certain that the G.O.P. will never get the 67 votes needed to convict. Though Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal will be deposed this week, even stalwart Republicans privately admit that the trial is basically dead...
...armed forces. In his dismissal letter, he disclosed that his brother had moved to fire Jordan's Chief of Staff on false corruption charges related to the construction of an opulent new home. Palace sources say that Hussein saw the move, at worst, as the beginning of a coup attempt...