Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John's has battled all season, with near-miss losses to Stanford and Purdue and the Preseason NIT and to No. 1 Duke in overtime at Madison Square Garden, in a game Elton Brand thought was the best he's ever played in, a 92-88 defeat...
According to Assistant Dean Karen E. Avery '87, who was one of around 20 to attend the event, Phelps will be speaking to the College deans in the near future...
...harshly -- costing too much money and time," says Novak. She now agrees with her department's Public Integrity Section, which has steadfastly maintained it is willing, able and professional enough to conduct investigations of administration officials. Reno's opposition reduces the chances of renewing the independent counsel statute to near zero. Although committee chairman Fred Thompson criticized some of her independent counsel decisions, don't count on him either to save the statute: He's never supported the law for some of the same reasons as Reno...
Last Saturday morning an abortion clinic in Asheville, N.C. was bombed. While no one was hurt in the blast, the continued violence against abortion clinics and abortion providers is a threat to Americans' constitutional rights. The bomb, which did not explode completely, was placed next to a wall near the waiting room. Had it achieved its aim, it could have killed or injured people waiting to be seen for any of the number of services that the clinic provides...
...crystallized leaf gold nugget, purportedly the world's biggest, worth $3 million, at the Ironstone Vineyards; and the giant sequoias, members of the world's largest living species, in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Twain visited Bret Harte, another gold-rush writer, at Harte's cabin near California Caverns, where, according to local lore, Twain spelunked and found inspiration for the cave in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Nearby Columbia State Historic Park is one of California's best-preserved gold-rush towns, with many original buildings...