Word: although
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...thing I never thought of football is as money, although I guess it comes along with it," Kacyvenski said. "Obviously it's good for me and my family, and hopefully we won't have to worry about money. Money is not something big, it doesn't matter if we have it or if we don't. Growing up without it made me realize it's not that important. I don't like to use the words 'football' and 'money' in the same sentence, I love football because football's football...
...Although no one can prove that political contributions changed the decision in any given case, it hardly stretches the imagination to believe that contributions do have an effect in general; after all, campaign contributors have to believe that their money is buying results if they are to be persuaded to contribute again. Judges might favor contributors out of conscious gratitude or out of unconscious affinity for their political friends. According to a survey conducted for the state Supreme Court, 78 percent of the Texas public thinks contributions influence decisions, and 86 percent of Texas judges agree. Among Texas lawyers...
...three cases, Texas courts have upheld convictions in death penalty cases where the defense lawyer fell asleep during the trial. The trial judge ruled that the Constitution may guarantee the right to a lawyer, but it "does not say the lawyer has to be awake"; this judgment was affirmed, although not in so many words, by the highest criminal court in the state. Without a meaningful check on their lawyer's incompetence, poor defendants in Texas are truly thrown on the mercy of the court...
...singles was the battle of the rookies, as freshman Sanja Bajin took on Kavitha Krishnamurthy, Princeton's top seed. Although Krishnamurthy emerged victorious, Bajin went down swinging. She pulled out a close 7-6 win in the first set, but Krishnamurthy dominated the next two sets...
...Although Harvard still struggled scoring, the offense was more fluid and the team was much more confident this time around...