Word: nearly
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...Leon, head of a major smuggling operation, and destroying a ton of cocaine seized by the Mexican navy on the Yucatan resort island of Cozumel. In announcing the recertification, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned today that the decision was made "with firm expectations of further progress in the near term. We expect Mexico to work with us" particularly in "attacking corruption." Albright complained that "corruption is deeply rooted in Mexican counterdrug institutions. Six Mexican attorney generals and five drug czars have come and gone in the last five years, without making major headway against drug barons." In that light...
...focus most of my attention on academic questions concerning race and ethnicity in the United States. Given progressive attitudes that usually permeate this campus, many of the problems that my fellow brothers outside college face in their day-to-day lives are conspicuously absent from mine. As I near the end of my tenure at Harvard, however, the problems that have been raging beyond its ivory walls are encroaching upon my life...
...media and the general public, the fascination with the JonBenet Ramsey case makes a certain sense. There are the mysterious details of the crime, the near silence of the Boulder police department and the unusual behavior of the girl's wealthy parents. And, of course, there are all those pageant pictures available to feed the nightly TV-news machine. But others see an injustice here: a fixation with the violence that rarely befalls members of rich or famous families--the JonBenets or Ennis Cosbys of the world--and a glossing over of the more pervasive violence sweeping through the lives...
Originally the film was to be based on a biography of Jessica Savitch, the television reporter who died with her boyfriend in 1983 when their car accidentally rolled into the Delaware Canal near Philadelphia. But the details of Savitch's personal life proved too lurid for the glamorous project Disney executives had in mind. Only after 27 rewrites was the script deemed suitably uplifted and dumbed down for filming. At one point an exasperated Dunne asks a producer what he thinks the picture is really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers...
OTTAWA: Canadians would love to have their own Madeleine--Madeleine Kunin, that is. Trouble is it may be hard for the ex-Vermont Governor to give up her current job by the Swiss Alps for one near the Great Lakes. America's neighbor may have to settle for Renaissance Weekend founder Philip Lader, a good friend of Bill...