Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...finalize my summer plans, I decided to stay in Cambridge--to get to know this place before I leave. Spending this summer here also means that I'm exploring Cambridge and Boston early enough to have my senior year to revisit the local places I enjoy--instead of finding out too late that there were many sites that I had been missing out on all along. When I was given the opportunity to live on campus and work in Boston, my summer plans were set: I would live in Leverett in return for working on the House website and work...
...obligatory task--no self-respecting politician or newspaper editorial page can let Independence Day pass without a tribute to the nation's birth. Some just give up on coming up with anything new--instead of putting together the customary pastiche of patriotic platitudes, the Boston Globe editorial page and a few other newspapers reprinted the entire Declaration of Independence on Tuesday in place of their editorials. Who can top that, anyway...
...while Arafat and Barak will show up in Washington next week, neither will be in a mood to compromise at the urging of a lame duck American president. Which means the chances of Bill Clinton's presiding over a final Israeli-Palestinian agreement are increasingly remote. Instead, Arafat will probably declare his state sometime between the election and the inauguration, the Israelis will retaliate, and the next U.S. president will be called on to referee a new phase of their increasingly complex clash...
...Then again, who cares? One Williams is sure to advance, and one is sure to lose. Try choosing instead between poor Jelena Dokic, whose own dad was escorted out of the All England Tennis Club for cell-phone smashing, intemperate flag-waving and profane anti-Clinton diatribes, or the real buzz underdog, publicity-deprived Lindsay Davenport, who actually prefers it that...
...What They Say, which deftly samples guitarist Jose Feliciano, and the mournful Hold On, a tribute to the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. that features singer Mary J. Blige. As for the rest, the music is raucous without being forceful, and Lil' Kim's lyrics are graphic without being erotic. Instead of feeling the rapper's persona come through, one feels the grip of her many producers. Kim may be lil', but she's bigger than this...