Word: though
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...answer was the Westside Jewish Community Center. It had an old 25-yard pool, far from Olympic standards, but it was close to where the Krayzelburgs were living. It had a swim team, though not a serious training program. Lenny could practice on his own, compete with the team. There was no swim team at his high school, Fairfax, a basketball factory that had sent Chris Mills and Sean Higgins toward NBA careers, so the Westside JCC became Lenny's sole base for swimming. He even wound up with a lifeguard job there, so he was at the center...
...good for me because it forced me to learn English," he says. "In school there were a lot of other Russian kids, so we always could talk among ourselves. But at the center no one spoke Russian. I had to learn English. For swimming, though, no matter what I did, I knew I wasn't making enough progress. I knew what those kids were doing in Odessa. I wasn't doing that here." Would he never grow, never develop? That was a real possibility. His gift might have been left behind with the family's other possessions...
...kowtowed to the demands of a much powerful nation--the omnipotent United States. Her reasons for travelling in Peru were simple; she wanted to see the beauty of South America, but could not travel within her own country due to the control of various guerilla factions and paramilitary groups. Though Colombia boasts incredible natural attractions along its northern coast and within the forests of its central highlands, the farming areas are almost entirely controlled by the so-called "narcos...
...This report could send some members of congressional appropriations committees running back for their notes - to date, schools have received almost $4 billion in federal aid earmarked for computers and Internet access. No one should panic just yet, though: Conflicting studies evaluating the benefits of computers are published often. And until we reach something resembling a consensus, we'll still be a very long way from turning our G-3s into fishbowls...
...moderate, Jeb Bush-Connie Mack Republican," he says, "and I couldn't have been elected to the House 10 times in Florida if I wasn't." But state G.O.P. leaders privately concede that McCollum was not the center-right candidate Jeb Bush had hoped for. Still, though his record is inked with fights against the Brady gun-control bills, McCollum has a lesser-known reputation as a bipartisan legislator, working with Florida's Democratic Senator Bob Graham to fund major new antidrug aid for Colombia this year; and his stand with the Bushes on "more school-accountable" education reform, which...