Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most disturbing aspect of this entire affair is not the attempt of the NBA to stifle free expression--the "core democratic values" the Times discusses have been under attack for as long as there have been democracies. Rather, we should be shocked that the NBA is so concerned with a patriotic observance in the first place. It's hard to believe that something so tangential to a basketball game would be the subject of NBA legislation...
...seeks to increase racial integration in the river houses. I am an African-American graduate student and a resident race-relations tutor at Eliot House, and I would certainly like to see more black students in the river houses. However, I don't believe that forced integration, with no attempt to change the underlying circumstances that caused campus housing to become "segregated," is the way to achieve this goal. Instead, the administration should ask black students why they feel the need to live so closely together, and then fashion a policy that would encourage more black students to voluntarily live...
Students said this is just one more example of the College's attempt to increase the distribution of information by computer...
...also ensures that the financial needs of all admitted students are met. Currently, two-thirds of Harvard undergraduates receive some form of financial aid. However, if the cost of tuition continues to mount so rapidly, we wonder how Harvard can sustain this commitment. Thus, we urge the University to attempt to continue slowing the rate of tuition increases in the coming years...
...washing our dirty linen in public." But Mandela said that since his release from prison, his wife had never even entered his bedroom while he was awake. Winnie Mandela had refused her husband's efforts to end their marriage amicably, insisting that they meet with tribal leaders in an attempt to reconcile. "She resisted because of she is who she is," says TIME's Peter Hawthorne. "Winnie Mandela does not give up on anything without a fight." Mandela said he could never reconcile with his wife after seeing a love letter she had written to her attorney...