Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...often see such would-be Ph.Ds crouched over books with titles like Proust and the Politics of Body, their facial muscules taut with what seems to be intense intellectual eagerness. Don't let that lean and hungry look fool you, though--it's due as much to physical as to metaphysical causes. In other words, most grad students don't get enough...
Indeed, even though Harvard has provided President Bush with some of his top advisers, the principles of personal freedom and social tolerance have stayed strong in Cambridge. Harvard Square is still one of the few places in this country where you'll see two men holding hands in public, or a Black woman and a white...
These are not the best of times for Argentina's President Carlos Menem. When his wife Zulema barricaded herself and their two children within the presidential residence, he prudently left the country for a European sojourn, though not before signing a decree giving himself sole authority over who is allowed inside. When he returned home, he ousted Zulema, who then made a melodramatic scene in front of TV cameras. But these troubles pale before a new problem confronting Menem. Legions of superstitious Argentines have become convinced he is cursed with a hex. The alleged evidence: several of his Cabinet ministers...
...deep gulf continues to separate the two Koreas. Technically North and South Korea are still at war, and they have moved no closer to reunification. As long as Kim, now 78, continues to rule the North, significant reform or concessions to the South are unlikely. And even though millions in North and South Korea share a yearning for reunification, the two countries have pursued different paths for too long to reconcile easily. As a Korean proverb says, "We may sleep in the same bed, but we have different dreams...
Occasionally, though, a different Bush shows up for work. He visibly clenches and unclenches his jaw, as if chewing bullets. He sees a conspiracy anytime two Congressmen voice similar criticisms of him. His speeches bristle with darts for "liberal tax-and-spend Democrats" who want to cripple the military while coddling drug pushers and flag burners. This is the Bush that Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau calls Skippy, the gentleman President's "evil twin," who pops up whenever harsh partisanship is deemed necessary...