Word: although
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...right, although sometimes the exposure backfired, as it did at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Florence when a woman asked what he could do to help her chronically ill son. Bush danced around the question for a while, talking about the virtues of medical savings accounts, before acknowledging that he couldn't help her. He shrugged in a way that suggested he didn't know why he was supposed to solve everyone's problems. "I'm sorry," he said. "I wish I could wave a wand." It was an honest answer, but it lacked the empathy Americans have come...
...TIME investigation tracked the alleged conspiracy through the labyrinthine structure of Lloyd's, which is not an insurance company like, say, Allstate, but a vast insurance exchange that evolved from Edward Lloyd's wharfside coffeehouse in the 17th century. As then, members bid for underwriting business, although today they do so from a four-story-high, block-square trading room in London. These underwriters form syndicates that are in turn backed by Names--investors who range from British notable Camilla Parker Bowles to U.S. business tycoons like Lufkin and Schwab, columnist Robert Novak, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and smaller...
Senator Eide hasn't gone that route yet, although Joanna did have a minor traffic accident earlier this month. (No one was hurt, but her father was driving right behind her.) So until she gets more driver's ed, Joanna is living under a new law: if she can't walk, she can catch a ride with her dad--or with her state senator...
...course, to get to the use-anywhere, anytime-you-like dream machine. When that device arrives, I predict it will inherit the best genes of the Palm line: the readable color of the IIIc, the thinness of the V and the built-in wireless connectivity of the VII (although at broadband speeds, so you can pull down video and audio). And if I have my druthers, it will run on Palm's elegant, easy-to-use operating system, which with the IIIc is upgraded to version...
...believes the population has stabilized, and if that's true, he can take some of the credit. Like homicide detectives, Fomenko's brigades track the poachers, using roadblocks, stakeouts and even raids. In six years, the patrols have seized about 700 guns, 25 tiger skins and countless traps. Although the poachers are fined, Russian justice is often flawed. In parts of the region, says Fomenko, poorly paid officials are susceptible to corruption. "It's not hard to guess," he says, "why some might take bribes and let the poachers walk...