Word: although
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...argue that Gore won Florida but should give up anyway. "Every Democrat feels that Gore is getting screwed," says a top Democratic congressional aide. "But at what cost?" Party leaders feel that Democrats will have a better chance of retaking Congress in the 2002 elections if Bush is President. Although minority leaders Richard Gephardt and Tom Daschle flew to Florida last week to rally Democrats and sit through a staged phone call with Gore, they didn't suggest the trip. Gore's people...
...fickle, and W.'s career, which really didn't begin until he gave up drinking in his 40s, took off suddenly when he got control of the Texas Rangers. Party elders started urging him to run for Governor. Jeb had already decided to run again, having made his millions (although W.'s $14.9 million sweetheart payout for his share of the baseball team gave him more, faster). Jeb told the New York Times--when his jokes turned up in W.'s speeches and when odious comparisons (like this one) became commonplace--how he feared that the brother thing could turn...
...popularity has already slipped 5 points. Up for re-election in two years, he has a black community angered anew over voting-rights violations. Then there are the seniors, who became fair game for driving too slowly, eating too early, and because they couldn't read a ballot although they can manage a dozen bingo cards. There are the Jews, ridiculed for letting a simple butterfly ballot trick them into voting for Nazi-revisionist Pat Buchanan. And there are the random voters who had the misfortune to vote in heavily Democratic precincts using antiquated machines that have an undercount rate...
...under a cloud of censure." Sommers cites studies showing that boys come to school less prepared than girls, do less homework and get suspended more often. "For males, there's no social currency in being a straight-A student," says Clifford Thornton, associate dean of admissions at Wesleyan University. Although the latest figures show that college graduates earn, on average, almost double the wages of those with no college, "there's a sense among many boys that it's sissy to go to college," says sociologist and author Michael Kimmel. "The thinking is, 'I can get a job without...
Parents who send their "late-five" children to kindergarten with classmates who have already turned six years old often think they're giving them a jump start on learning. But a new analysis from the renowned Fullerton study says although late fives at first seem more advanced than same-age peers who start school a year later, any advantage disappears by fifth grade. The Fullerton study is a longitudinal analysis of 130 kids (now adults), all of whom could have started kindergarten as late fives but half of whom were not enrolled until they turned...