Word: attempting
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Before that, however, Soliah had been thinking of negotiating her way back from pseudonymity. An attempt in 1989 came to naught. But this year, through an intermediary, she passed word to Larry Hatfield, a veteran reporter with the San Francisco Examiner (coincidentally, a Hearst publication), that she might turn herself in to the FBI if she could avoid jail time. She broke off talks when America's Most Wanted aired its segment. Says Hatfield: "Kathy's side thought that the show indicated bad faith" on the FBI's part. She also became skittish when L.A.P.D.. detective David Reyes...
...before the revised ones, it probably wouldn't matter to me. I certainly wouldn't like a new Harvard song that only referred to one of the sexes. The new words make more sense--they are more inclusive and considerate. And yet, the revision of one little phrase the attempt to apologize for or whitewash the past is, in my eyes, silly and artificial. What real harm is done by that phrase, that one word? Its greatest crime is not what it actually does, but of what it reminds...
...percent of the Harvard undergraduate population knows. In several years the old lyrics will have faded from memory and nobody's life will be any different because of it. I can't really say it affects me that much; it only annoys me. It's a nice, but ineffectual attempt to fix and forget, and it helps us do neither. There is a difference between correcting serious errors in tradition and killing harmless reminders...
...before the revised ones, it probably wouldn't matter to me. I certainly wouldn't like a new Harvard song that only referred to one of the sexes. The new words make more sense--they are more inclusive and considerate. And yet, the revision of one little phrase, the attempt to apologize for or whitewash the past is, in my eyes, silly and artificial. What real harm is done by that phrase, that one word? Its greatest crime is not what it actually does, but of what it reminds...
...percent of the Harvard undergraduate population knows. In several years the old lyrics will have faded from memory and nobody's life will be any different because of it. I can't really say it affects me that much; it only annoys me. It's a nice, but ineffectual attempt to fix and forget, and it helps us do neither. There is a difference between correcting serious errors in tradition and killing harmless reminders...