Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...victory over Holy Cross kept the Crimson's chances of securing a spot in the NCAA Tournament alive. Harvard, though, most likely would only receive a bid by winning the Ivy League. It hopes it can build momentum off this win and a 2-0 victory last Saturday over Yale to run the table...
This is a call to arms. Though the Mets appeared to have that in abundance, we can spare no resource. It is time for the Yankee reign of terror...
...true man during his down time, it doesn't speak well for either candidate. Gore tended to freeze ramrod-straight when finished, like a photocopier gone into energy-conservation mode; Bush had a disconcerting tendency to cross his hands in front of his crotch and sway, as though he just realized he'd been hitting the podium-side water a little too heavily. Sorry to be a broken record, but it reinforced the old stereotypes of each man: Gore as machine, Bush as restless first grader...
...Second of all, George Bush isn't getting any smarter. Still, there were no major flubs - though maybe tackling "peroration" (it came out "piroation") was a mistake - and after two earlier faceoffs that were healthy for the Texas governor's stature, he probably didn't disappoint anyone whose expectations had been raised...
...carriage and impressively human gesticulations left Bush looking a little wan and hunched, and he scored a layup by explaining Bush's education policy for him. But the vice president never stole the show. Bush, after a nervous beginning in which he managed to botch his Carnahan-condolence line (though at least it was brief - Gore's sounded like an Oscar speech), settled down. He boiled down the tax cut/estate tax question resoundingly ("It's a fairness issue. It's an issue of principle, not politics") and delivered suitably grave response to the death penalty question that Gore, surprisingly, left...