Word: although
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...Hence the teasing, intensely publicized secrecy; the warehouses bristling with security; the demands that bookstores not sell or even unpack copies of the new book before the first moments of July 8 (although a few did slip out earlier). Publishing records were noisily announced: a 3.8 million-copy first printing in the U.S., another million in Britain...
...worth remembering, right about here, that "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it, or listening to someone else read it aloud, requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
...York Times had warned that there would be more than 600 police officers roaming the stadium to control especially fervent anti-Rocker fans. Although nothing in particular called for such an outpouring of NYPD officers, I'll admit that the security was a wise decision on the part of the police department. Especially in light of last month's Los Angeles Lakers fan-instigated riots, the NYPD had to be prepared for anything. Despite the extensive preparations--the cop standing guard at my seating section had been there since 1 p.m.--nothing of consequence happened...
...scissors game that decides the hosts of soccer's World Cup. Germany, whose bid to host the 2006 event was fronted by the supermodel alongside tennis ace Boris Becker and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, on Thursday knocked out South Africa's, championed by its legendary former president, by one vote. Although Sepp Blatter, president of soccer's world governing body, FIFA, had backed South Africa's bid on the grounds that it was time to give the African continent a first opportunity to host the world's biggest sporting event, Mandela's men reckoned without the cunning of Franz Beckenbauer, legendary...
...World Cup will be jointly hosted by Korea and Japan, marking the tournament's first foray outside of either Europe or the Americas. But although South Africa is by far the most viable potential host in Africa, it failed to persuade enough FIFA delegates that it would have sufficiently tamed its rampant crime problem to make it a viable venue for the tens of thousands of foreign fans who travel to the event. In terms of infrastructure and transport Germany, naturally, had a distinct edge, while the 12-hour flying time from Europe to South Africa - and, indeed, the prohibitive...