Word: although
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Although she doesn't know what plots are in store for her character, who was last seen two years ago when she left the fictional Pine Valley to deal with an eating disorder, Riegel is ready for anything...
...Although she is putting her career ahead of Harvard for now, Riegel is serious about her education...
...presidential search committee six of its own seven members (Bok, the seventh Corporation member, excluded). This search committee was charged with gathering a long list of potential candidates and recommending a shortened list to the Corporation--meaning, strangely, that six search committee members would be recommending names to themselves. Although the alumni-elected Board of Overseers had to rubber-stamp the Corporation's final recommendation in a hastily arranged vote, it was clear that the Corporation had almost complete control over the process, a process that hasn't changed much throughout much of Harvard's history...
...Although heavily skewed to the soundtrack of the baby-boom generation, the poll was not confined to rock 'n' roll, thus "Over the Rainbow" from "The Wizard of Oz" and "Strange Fruit," popularized by Billie Holiday, weigh in at number 3 and 7, respectively. Like most of the songs on the list, these are cultural phenomena as much as songs, and this applies as well to Motown and Bob Dylan, represented on the list by Smokey Robinson's "The Tracks of My Tears' (5) and Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing...
...with your view of Harry and Co. - it's such good fun. I read parts I-III for my kids last summer (they were 3 and 4 then) and we've just listened to I and II on tape (long car journey) so we are ready for part IV (although I suspect that it will be too much for them - I'm really getting it just for me!). - Elaine...