Word: nearly
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...that he just got out of the joint, the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, improbably freed after serving less than five years of a 12 1/2-year sentence. Since Keating walked, at age 73, prosecutors have been beside themselves to reimprison or retry him. In the meantime, he lives in near seclusion, although he recently met with TIME for two days of interviews that offer his first detailed account of his case since his release. Tan, relaxed and defiant, he says he is not going to cop a plea, say, for time served: "I didn't come this...
...Federal Government and the states do have programs specifically aimed at helping the development of infants and toddlers, although as social policy they are nowhere near as sweeping as an overhaul of welfare. The most notable federal initiative is Early Head Start, which was created in 1994 when Congress reauthorized funding for Head Start, the 32-year-old program that brings three-, four- and five- year-olds into classroom settings in part to prepare them for school. Mary Jo Bane was working at the time at the Department of Health and Human Services (she quit over welfare reform...
...When Eugene Meyer retired, he passed control of the paper to Kay's husband Philip Graham, who ran it until his suicide in 1963. Only then did Kay Graham, at age 46, come out of the shadow of the men in her life and gradually transform herself into a near legendary figure: the "iron lady" who built the Post into one of the nation's great papers, stood up to the Nixon Administration during Watergate and hobnobbed with the rich and powerful while running one of the nation's premier media companies (owner of newspapers and TV stations, as well...
...including the winning touchdown, and I ended up with the most beautiful girl in the school. I said to her, 'This is the most wonderful day of my life. Too bad it's only a dream.' And she said, 'Yes, but in the dream it's real.'" One night, near the end, Briggs whispered in Dickey's ear, "In the dream it's real." The poet squeezed Briggs' hand and said, "I know it is." Two nights later, early last week, Jim Dickey died for good...
...amassed a personal fortune and attained the American Dream through his brilliance and hard work. What's wrong with that? All the more power to Gates and Microsoft. I look forward to the cornucopia of new software and gadgets that they will come up with in the near future. MARIO J. HEMENS Riyadh