Word: nearly
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...when Huang arrived at Harvard, her luck began to change. First, near the end of her fall semester, Huang had to change classes because one of her TFs had been making harassing calls to her late at night. Then, right before finals, one of her best friends, Dominic Armijo '95, committed suicide. After filling out a police report and being sent to talk to psychiatrists, Huang was sent home to cope with the death. She also missed two finals which she had to make up in the middle of midterms during the spring semester...
...Harvard captain Ivy Pochoda, looking to cup a career of near-misses with a first-ever national singles championship, the end of streaks is a mixed blessing--unaccustomed team misfortune, but long-sought-after personal glory...
Around this date in 1989, a lone protester stood in front of a column of four Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square. On June 4, 1998, a lone protester sat in a wheelchair near the Monument to the People's Heroes at the heart of the same Square, handing out leaflets. He wasn't even protesting the massacre; his leaflets demanded compensation for a crippling shooting in the southeastern Fujian province. Like his predecessor, he was dragged away, kicking and screaming, by the authorities. Unlike his predecessor, he lived to protest another...
...that's most of them -- this is fantastic news," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "Starr wanted to present an airtight case to Congress this summer; now he'll have to wait for these decisions at least until fall. And Republicans won't touch the issue anywhere near the elections; whatever case Starr had would be immediately politicized and be robbed of its credibility...
...that extra weight could make a big difference in a billion years or so if the universe, currently expanding from the Big Bang, suddenly falls back in on itself. "Add in the extra weight of the neutrinos, and the total mass of the universe is near that critical point," says TIME science correspondent Mike Lemonick. "This a big discovery...