Word: nearly
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...presidential election draws near, organizers of the national environmental movement are ardently trying to sway public opinion in favor of environmentally-friendly candidates...
However, there was no real sense of urgency for the Crimson during this game, so the team didn't act like there was one. It wasn't an Ivy League game, and it came on the heels of Friday's win over Cornell; though much-improved, Fairfield was nowhere near Harvard's level; and the team was mainly looking forward to this weekend's games against No. 21 Texas and Cal Poly-San Luis Obisbo and next week's game against No. 3 UConn...
Arafat spent much of Monday, Sept. 30, in the grand salon of Mubarak's summer residence near Alexandria. He said he felt he could go to Washington only if Mubarak joined him there. But Mubarak did not believe Netanyahu would agree to any concessions, and he declined an invitation to the summit. Mubarak, aides indicated, was no longer willing to take domestic political risks for a peace process stalled by Israel. But the Egyptian President insisted that Arafat go anyway. "Mubarak spent three hours convincing him he should," says an Egyptian official. "Mubarak told him, 'You have a cause...
...warriors generally are by their admirers: as a practical soldier, a man of rough humor, mostly inarticulate idealism and, perhaps, a certain unspoken regret about that "talent for mayhem" (as he puts it), which is as much burden as gift. And he is embodied by Liam Neeson, who is near perfect in the role. There is an old-fashioned romanticism to the actor, a mysterious darkness beneath the dashing surface of this performance. Something behind Neeson's eyes hints at an authentic sadness about the center's failure to hold, real rue about the violence with which things are falling...
...members are in the group: "You don't divulge your strength or weakness to the enemy. Currently it's Bill Clinton and the press," Looker has said. The seven were arrested on various charges, including conspiring to make bombs, transporting explosives across state lines and plotting to place explosives near the FBI fingerprint center. Terence Nelan...