Word: although
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tinsley likes to shoot, although she hasn't been hitting as many shots this year as she has in years past. In nine games, she is 5-of-34 from behind the arc for a paltry 14.7 percent. Her total field goal percentage is 35 percent...
...plot loosely follows Asimov's outline. The robot in question, played by Robin Williams, is acquired by the wealthy Martin family. Although they were simply looking for help with the household chores, it quickly becomes clear to the father of the family (Sam Neill) that the robot, which they have named Andrew, has great artistic and intellectual abilities. Andrew also becomes the closest friend of the youngest Martin daughter, known only as "Little Miss" (Embeth Davidtz as an adult). The film progresses, as the title suggests, over 200 years, and in that time Andrew is granted his freedom and embarks...
...Bibi's father, and of course the Massacre itself are such powerful moments that very real emotion travels between Bibi and Karen and reverberates through the audience. Bibi and Karen seem to be connected through their experiences. Throughout their friendship, they learn that they have much in common, and although the premise is that they are never reunited after their first encounter, they often speak directly and even touch across the geographic and political divide, which thus becomes an imaginary barrier in the human sense...
...Although the report is extremely critical of the United Nations' failure to intervene, its authors acknowledge that the international body ultimately implements the policy of its member states. "A couple of months ago stories were appearing in the media that laid most of the blame at Kofi Annan's door," says Dowell. "But that's not particularly fair, since Annan is ultimately an administrator. He can't order any U.N. action that's not authorized by the member states." And the most influential of those, the U.S., wasn't prepared to go ahead with a decisive response. "The best...
...appointed successor, Putin. A strong showing by Unity, as well as the pro-Kremlin Union of Right-Wing Forces headed by former prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko, will create a solid pro-Kremlin bloc in the traditionally anti-Kremlin legislature. That's an effect primarily of the Chechnya war, although it also illustrates that Russian politics is something of a funhouse mirror to multiparty democracy. Russia's communist-era nomenklaturacontinue to compete for power among themselves in an ever-shifting series of hidden transactions, in which party politics is something of an afterthought. "The strongest contender besides the Communists...