In an ambitious, if flawed, attempt to secure a modicum of justice, the attorney-general's office has so far obtained confessions by 158 former paramilitaries to 4,300 crimes, and identified some 40,000 victims who are supposed to be compensated.But problems persist.
The directorial debut of the cinematographer Wally Pfister is an ambitious, albeit flawed, attempt to dramatise what futurologists call the singularity, but what the screenplay by first-timer Jack Paglen insists on calling "transcendence": the moment when a computer network achieves greater-than-human intelligence.
While novice director Rawson Marshall Thurber makes a valiant, though flawed, attempt to render this story of just-graduated college student Art Bechstein--played by Jon Foster [who wasn't available for this interview]--son of gangland boss Joe The Egg Bechstein (Nick Nolte), who struggles to break away from his father's suffocating demands before he's forced into a job he doesn't want.
The exhibition is an inevitably flawed attempt at a kind of completeness.
The nature of the flawed attempts does show that these young men are juvenile and like many other criminals.
Fergie's first Champions League success in 1999 survived his initially flawed attempts to cover for the suspended Roy Keane and Paul Scholes and owed everything to inspired substitutions, as Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer beat Bayern Munich in stoppage time.
Hence we had Thom Yorke and David Byrne railing against the evils of streaming – and Yorke's grand but flawed attempts to create a new way of selling music – either through a "pay what you like" scheme or via a legalised BitTorrent model.
The ascent began in 1999, when Jonathan was plucked from a job as an environmental officer for the Niger Delta Development Commission, one of the periodic flawed attempts to appease militants agitating for development by funnelling petrodollars to their leaders, to run as deputy state governor.
For example, some seriously flawed attempts to play a difficult piece by Chopin are nonetheless performances of that work, even though they lack qualities that a proper or a good instance of the work would have.
The RFU's Disciplinary Officer, Judge Jeff Blackett, had been asked to investigate the chaotic events of the preceding months: the recruitment - and sacking - of John Steele as chief executive, and the flawed attempts to appoint a performance director.
