Word: vainly
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...third-chance layup with 21 seconds left, but the Crimson played out the remainder of the game to perfection. In an impressive display of keep-away, Peljto, Tubridy, sophomore Dirkje Dunham and freshman center Reka Cserny cycled the ball around the perimeter as the Huskies tried in vain to foul. Dunham was finally caught, but not before 19 seconds had run off the clock. Her two free throws iced the game...
Hope that the gremlins in the Crimson’s computers don’t pixelate our photos. Hope is vain...
...commit themselves to armed struggle against the West, bin Laden wins. Then all the money spent on space-age pilotless planes and U.S. special forces, with their night-vision goggles and heat-seeking sensors, has been wasted, and all those who were killed on Sept. 11 have died in vain...
...searches in vain, too, for moral seriousness—for originality of thought—for a willingness to tackle controversies of any stripe. Rudenstine’s notion of taking a controversial stand seems to be supporting the idea of “diversity” in higher education by defending affirmative action. His idea of originality and moral seriousness seems to be quoting literary voices, drawing upon authors whose ability to communicate dwarfs his own, and using them to banal and platitudinous ends...
...Justice Department attorney this week to flesh out Bush's order is welcome, because the current document seems incomplete in at least three respects: it does not define "terrorism," rules of evidence for a military trial are not specified and it makes what in most cases may be a vain attempt to ban an outside nonmilitary judicial review of any American military trial in the U.S. or abroad. For example, if a suspected terrorist were apprehended in France, it seems unlikely that the French judiciary would turn the suspect over for military trial in France or the U.S. without reviewing...