Word: almost
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Plastic surgeon Elizabeth Morgan, 41, has committed no crime. Yet for almost two years she has been in prison. Reason: she refuses to permit her six-year- old daughter Hilary to visit the child's father, Eric Foretich, 46, who she alleges raped Hilary during previous visits. Judge Herbert Dixon sent Morgan to prison for contempt when she refused to reveal Hilary's whereabouts. Relief may be on the way: prompted by the Morgan case, the House of Representatives last week passed a bill to limit civil contempt-of-court sentences to twelve months. Based on the idea that...
...Friedman buttresses this familiar thesis with fresh, arresting details. He chronicles the mounting debacle of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which began with the announced goal of ending the safe haven enjoyed by Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization troops. In this Israel succeeded. That was almost easy, since a lot of Lebanese also wanted to get rid of the P.L.O. The Israeli soldiers were welcomed as saviors: "Everywhere you went in Lebanon, Jews were getting their pictures taken. This was not a nation at war, it was a nation on tour...
...party roster reads Jiang Zemin, but power in China still rests in the hands of a few octogenarians. So it made sense for them to choose as party General Secretary a man known as "the weather vane." Jiang is the consummate apparatchik, whose rise to nominal power rests almost wholly on his ability to read China's swirling political winds correctly. The 63-year-old former mayor of Shanghai perfectly mirrors the party line of the moment -- slower economic reform coupled with rigid political orthodoxy -- as he made clear last week in his maiden address. Jiang skipped lightly over...
...almost impossible to go through four years at Harvard without taking a course with one of the big-shots. But once the initial thrill wears off, many become convinced that that true secret to Harvard is to avoid the classes taught by names that appear most frequently on television or in the newspapers...
...Almost any student here will tell you that the teachers you learn the most from are the junior professors who still have the time, energy and interest in their students...