Word: although
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...although Goodheart is reticent, his friends reveal that the mysterious man with the shock of gray-speckled hair has a past and a personal life: a spectacular academic career led to a clerkship with a future Supreme Court Justice and, brought him to the halls of power at Harvard...
...Although former members of SAC had opposed the current election process, citing concerns that the campaign might lead to bitter personal attacks, the speeches that the candidates delivered last night were informal and friendly...
...Justice O'Connor and Justice Kennedy are perhaps more likely to swing over to Gore's side - although some consider O'Connor a more likely defector. Both Kennedy and O'Connor have (and jealously guard) reputations as consensus-builders, and are often the decisive votes in extremely controversial cases, including recent abortion-rights rulings. Don't expect to read any grand political statements into either of these Justices' votes; Kennedy, in particular, seems inured to the political ramifications of Court rulings, and tends to examine each case on a purely legal and intellectual level - more so than other Justices whose...
...Florida goes, so goes Israel? The Jewish state's election, too, seemed poised Monday to be settled in a complex series of maneuvers in courtrooms and legislatures - although in Israel's case the maneuvering would take place long before the voting. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday declared his intention to run for the nation's top job, following Ehud Barak's shock decision to resign and seek a new mandate in fresh elections. But as things currently stand, Netanyahu is disqualified from the race: Barak resigned under a special law that requires, in such circumstances, a direct election...
...Although Pinochet supporters proclaimed Monday's decision a victory, eluding arrest on technical grounds does not bode well for the strongman who faces more than 200 criminal complaints in the Chilean courts. Judge Guzman had pressed charges of murder and kidnapping arising out of the "caravan of death," a 1973 campaign in which a group of military officers toured the country rounding up opponents of Pinochet's junta and summarily executing them. The judge's arrest order came as a surprise, since he had previously ordered medical and psychological tests to determine the general's competency to stand trial...