Word: vaines
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...course, this is all a tremendous shame for Harvard students, who can say goodbye to red-pepper hummus as they beg, in vain, for the higher powers to dig into our sumptuous endowment...
...Harvard can't do anything on its possession and turns the ball over again. Yale's Alex Zampier flies down the court but Jeremy Lin catches him in time to foul him before getting the easy lay-in. His efforts are in vain however, as he makes both FTs. [Yale 56, Harvard...
...Back in a dank, freezing room in Yicheng city, the displaced residents of Zhuhai village are lining up to tell their stories. Some tell of being beaten. One man recounts how he was detained four times - once for 15 days - in a vain attempt to get him to sign a document giving approval for the demolition. They are afraid but also determined to continue fighting until they win their land back. "All we want is the land we have farmed for hundreds of years," says He Fuwei, one of two brothers who signed the original declaration...
...everyone in the region has chosen a side: Caught in the middle are the likes of Brazil's center-left President Lula da Silva, trying in vain to bridge the chasm. Right now, that appears to be an intractable diplomatic challenge - not the sort of mess you'd ever expect to be solved by the Organization of American States, long derided as one of the hemisphere's more hopelessly ineffectual institutions...
...given young people a skewed reality of what is important in life? -Linsey Jones, Geneva, Ill.A lot of things affect people's views if they let their views be affected. A weak-minded person who was going to do something negative or be vain was going to do that whether it was the music or somebody else that affected...