Word: though
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...Whatever that is. According to the Census Bureau, 27 percent of American families with kids are headed by a single parent. "Family comedy," though, still carries overtones of the Ike years, when sitcoms like "Father Knows Best" defined the genre and American pop culture was supposed to promote stability, peace and the effacement of discord at any cost...
...example, the self-reported crime statistics in the database suggest that Yale's campus is safer than Harvard's, even though New Haven has higher theft, murder and violent crime rates than Cambridge--and is listed as money.com's 195th safest city, compared to Cambridge's 40th safest city rating...
Price called prosecution of drug offenses "one of the most searing examples of racism in our country," citing statistics that the number of blacks convicted of drug offenses outnumber whites by 2 to 1, even though there are 5 times more white cocaine users...
During the primaries, McCain asked Bush why he opposed common-sense reforms to reduce the influence of big corporations and other special interests on the political process. Bush answered that he refused to support reform because it would "hurt the Republican party." In other words, even though huge soft-money donations are poisonous to our democracy, as long as Republicans raise more than Democrats, then it is just fine with Bush...
Mahon has postered extensively on-campus over the past several weeks, seeking contributors to his planned anthology Rantings from Harvard--even though the book doesn't yet have a publisher...