Word: though
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...Even though Harvard's offers are generally better than most, Bates said he fears the department is losing students to schools with better aid packages...
...Though most graduate programs in the humanities and social sciences depend on GSAS for their funding, because of research grants, science departments tend to be independently wealthy...
Ever since the Bob Jones University debacle, Bush advisers have been nervous about the Catholic vote. Bush saw an opportunity, though, to make up for his past mistakes. This year, St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday during Lent, when Catholics are not allowed to eat meat. The traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner was in jeopardy. Upon hearing that the archdioceses of Boston and Fall River have given special dispensation to their parishioners to partake in the day's feast, Bush pledged to secure a papal blessing for all American Catholics to eat their corned beef this Friday...
...annual South Boston St. Patrick's Day Breakfast, hosted by the state senator from South Boston since its beginnings in 1957. (According to the Gore campaign, the breakfast tradition began when the then 8-year-old Al Gore mentioned the idea while on a family vacation in Massachusetts.) Though the pols officially get the day off because of the obscure Massachusetts holiday, Evacuation Day, that commemorates the day the British left Boston, it's St. Patrick who gets all the press. That's because candidates, national and local alike, recognize the importance of the Irish vote--from cradle to grave...
...Even though a 32-year-old Zambian housewife is divorcing her husband, she demands one last night of passion. Courts have denied...