Word: although
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...working of the council to know who was most effective in changing library hours or getting better exercise equipment at the MAC. Since most students understandably don't have much information, elections are easily skewed towards candidates who can win the endorsements of large student organizations. Although it is natural to keep the recommendation of a trusted student group in mind when voting, it is too easy to win endorsements by dropping vague buzzwords that hardly translate into competence in office...
...follow their week-to-week progress are best able to gauge which candidates would be most effective. If the council elects it own president, it can choose someone it knows to be effective in organizing the council's activities, just as they already do for most major administrative posts. Although choosing a president could easily degenerate into factional council squabble, this would be no worse than uninformed voting. It has become quite clear that campus-wide elections still leave ample room for council in-fighting...
...Although the smell had been around for a while--a secretary reported smelling it around 4 p.m.--witnesses said it grew much stronger just before the second evacuation...
...takes a while for the narrative strategies of City of God to start meshing, but readers willing to be intrigued and patient for about 30 pages will get the hang of things. The entire novel comes from the notebooks of an author called Everett. Although he never reveals his last name, other personal details seep into his story. He is a New Yorker, born in the Bronx during the Depression. He has written for the movies, enjoys women, music and bird watching and keeps up on the latest theories of the cosmologists. After setting down a bravura description...
...Wahid's trademark political skill has been keeping his enemies off-balance, divided and isolated. Although that's required 180-degree turnabouts on some policy questions, it's effectively neutralized most challenges thus far to his presidency - an office he acquired only by his supreme skill at backroom politicking. Despite finishing a distant third in last spring's polls, Wahid managed to shut out the presumptive president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, by cobbling together a voting bloc of Islamic parties and Suharto supporters, and then immediately headed off the violent reaction in the streets by naming Megawati as his deputy. But while...