Word: attempting
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...best of situations, a news article will contain errors or lead the reader to make false assumptions. The Crimson article crossed well beyond the line of innocent misreporting. I will not attempt to address the many small inaccuracies in the article, but I do wish to point out the most glaring errors upon which the story was anchored...
Second, I did not attempt to "trick" a board inspector into believing I lived in a house in Harvard Square. I would have had no motive whatsoever in doing so, and given the very public fact that I had resided for some years in Harvard Yard, I would have been foolish to suggest otherwise to any city official. The Crimson's statement that "the board found Light guilty of deceiving an inspector" is careless misrepresentation. It implies both that I have faced some form of tribunal and that a legal determination has been made. Neither is true...
...just hours before press time. Even then, the reporter did not state the reason for his call--I had no idea that I would be the subject of a painfully damaging front-page story. It strikes me as patently disingenuous to work on a story for several days, then attempt to get a comment from the central figure only the day before the article is to be printed...
...attack on science is taking place on two fronts--one direct, the other indirect. The direct attack is an attempt to render science subjective and hence to place it on equal ground with the rest of the disciplines which have already been infected by post-modernism's ideas. The indirect attack is aimed at diverting funds from scientific research to the humanities, which are already in the clutches of post-modernism...
Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq -- the chief opponents of President Saddam Hussein -- claim to have wounded the leader's oldest son, Udai, in a Baghdad murder attempt and nearly assassinated the country's defense minister. Iranian radio reports said both assassination attempts occurred in the last 48 hours. TIME Istanbul contributor James Wilde says the Kurdish attacks are also disturbing neighboring Turkey, a strong U.S. ally already preoccupied by a series of domestic riots this week...