Word: nearly
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Seventy miles west of Cambridge, deep in a hardwood forest near the Massachusetts hamlet of Petersham, there is a Harvard classroom without walls, and four Harvard students who may set foot in Harvard Yard for the first time at Commencement...
...have already emerged on the Internet painting Maher as a Lee Harvey Oswald-like Russian mole. Another, probably closer to the truth, has Maher trying to ingratiate himself with the sickly billionaire, thus finding a place in his will. Expect a movie of the week at a cable station near...
...American dictator in the world is a cheap, cynical manipulation of farmers' emotions," said Jorge Mas, head of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. Besides powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms--who tightened the embargo in 1996 after Castro's air force shot down two small U.S. civilian planes near Havana--Mas has two other key allies: presidential contenders George W. Bush and Al Gore, who need Florida's electoral votes...
...writes, "all the qualities that had traditionally been attributed to the quasi-divine king--oneness, indivisibility, infallibility--were transferred to the revolutionary 'people.'" This formulation outlawed dissent--how could one body disagree with itself?--and led, by conservative estimates, some 17,000 French men and women to the guillotine. Near the end of the Terror, Robespierre told the National Assembly that the majority of the population might have to be executed for treason...
...convoy of trucks carrying some 350 tons of oil intended for Nis and Pirot, two opposition-run towns in southern Serbia. The convoy was stopped as soon as it crossed the border from Macedonia, and the two mayors, who came to meet it, were not even allowed to get near the trucks...