Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council also voted to again attempt tobring comedian Chris Rock to Harvard. The councilpreviously tried to hold a comedy concert withRock this month, but plans fell through due to aconflict with Rock's schedule...
...imprimatur of the church. "Nobody is more demanding than the Roman authorities when it comes to miracles," notes Father John Meier, Bible professor at Catholic University of America in Washington, whose new book, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II (Doubleday; $35), represents the latest scholarly attempt to meld science and faith. Too often over the centuries, Meier admits, the Catholic Church was taken in by charlatans. When reports spread of statues weeping or crosses bleeding or Jesus appearing on a tortilla, the church is often slow to respond, fearful that the search for a sign will distract...
...week after a 27-year career here, was overseeing the archives of Time Inc., the repository of this magazine's records as well as those of LIFE, FORTUNE and our other sister publications. The archives, which Felsher has managed for the past 15 years, are, in her words, "an attempt to make a story, and that story is the development and history of the company...
...having the hemisphere's worst human-rights record, will lash out because of the disclosures. Officers angered by pressure on the army to reform may have set off a series of explosions near the Guatemala City airport on March 26. "Right now anything is possible--a coup, an assassination attempt on the President or Defense Minister," warned a political analyst close to the military. Washington may have emerged from the cold war, but in Guatemala, military violence and a meddling CIA are still the way of life...
...attempt to murder Kunimatsu, coming so quickly after the subway gas attack that killed 10 and injured 5,500, struck at the very symbol of social stability in Japan. Not since the Japanese Red Army terrorized the country in the early 1970s has there been such a brazen challenge to authority in postwar Japan. Says Takeo Mori, professor of criminal psychology at Senshu University: "Anyone can do it anytime, and therein lies the fear...