Word: almost
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Moreover, the lack of comparable alternatives was almost embarrassing. The "media," "accounting" and "insurance" categories contained only one company each; surely, it is not merely arrogance that leads us to believe that there must be other firms in those fields eager to recruit Harvard graduates (though we do acknowledge that the wealth of the firms represented allows them to come to the fair with greater ease). In the future, we would hope that the event's organizers would redouble their efforts to attract a wide variety of industries...
...fact I'd already written half of another Theodore Roosevelt volume, which I've put aside. That book eliminates the narrative voice, the editorial voice, to an almost total extent. I wanted to see if I could write a biography of a President who lived between 1901 and 1909 in which there was absolutely no intrusion of the present. The reader gets the feeling from the first page to the last that they're back in the first decade of the century. So it couldn't be more different than the approach I took writing about Ronald Reagan...
...techniques we've got these days. The technique of the screenplay, sound effects, and computer techniques. Several chapters in Reagan's life were so cinematic that I've actually written them cinematically. Why not? It's the truthful way and the appropriate way to describe that they were episodes almost cinematic in themselves. He remembers them as cinema, so I write them as cinema...
...have fun he did. Wooten's masterful control over his instrument, coupled with his audience communication made each song unique. Wooten played all of his best material, from an almost beautifully tear-inducing "Amazing Grace" to "Norwegian Wood" to a funky version of "I Feel Alright." Monday night's break brought out the mellower, funkier side of Wooten. He played James Brown the way only he could, playing chords and thematic progressions in different time. Then, on Tuesday night, Wooten jammed for close to four hours and played four encores...
...spoken in Alabama, and He?s not a fan of state-sponsored gambling. That?s the line, at least, from Heart of Dixie religious leaders, who spearheaded a successful effort to defeat a proposed state lottery. The lottery was championed by Governor Donald Siegelman, whose 1998 election platform focused almost entirely on his pledge to bring state-sponsored gambling (and the resultant cash) to Alabama. Siegelman, who was understandably nonplussed by Tuesday?s defeat, had planned to use the profits from the lottery to bulk up the state's school budget. The voters? rejection of the referendum paints Alabama...