Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fall of my freshman year, I sold my Ec-10 textbook to my roommate and shopped an English seminar instead...
...would hope the medical community could provide some of the support she lacks in her personal life. Instead, Wit depicts a series of cold, impersonal doctors and technicians whose primary concern, beneath the senseless formalities they are required to spew, is research. In all fairness, each does work with relative competence to save Dr. Bearing's life in the face of metastasized cancer, but only one character attempts to salvage the vanishing shreds of the patient's dignity in the process. Susie (Lisa Tharps) gives a moving performance as the simple-minded nurse who ultimately proves to be more intelligent...
...kept walking, head up, eyes alert, when some big thug came up behind Nate and told him to watch out, so I didn't get jumped. I didn't bother to ask what exactly "getting jumped" meant in this context, instead using a few well placed elbows to get myself into the safety of the lobby...
...sign being held up saying "John 3:16," thinking that at least religion was still paramount. Nate quickly explained that it was a twisted sexual reference to a certain female wrestler who had announced the week before that she does not wear underwear. I debated walking out. Instead, I asked the hawker tossing out peanuts if he had a Perrier on the premises...
...squash players simply go out and play. Once the matches start, there is little Harvard Coach Satinder Bajwa can do. Instead, he wanders about, encouraging his team, and schmoozes a few parents along...