Word: nevertheless
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...still incomplete. That was bound to be the case, since some of Iranscam's key players -- North, Poindexter and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, whom the panel identifies as a principal conduit of supplies to the contras -- exercised their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the report will serve as an essential point of reference for the congressional select committees investigating the scandal...
When Eugene O'Neill got a toothache he turned to Saxe Commins, a dentist known for his light touch. But the playwright's ailing tooth was so stubborn, O'Neill noted, that the dentist "had almost to call in the derrick squad." Nevertheless, extractions proved to be the basis of their relationship for the next 30 years. After Commins left dentistry for publishing, including a quarter-century at Random House, he gently but forcefully drew from O'Neill some of his greatest plays. "Love and Admiration and Respect" is a record in letters and commentary of a remarkably creative friendship...
...jarring contrast between high purpose and pure kitsch. True, the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, headed by former Chief Justice Warren Burger, has rejected some of the more outrageous proposals. As a result, there will be no bicentennial brownie or constitutional hot dog. The commission has nevertheless designed a circular logo -- enclosing an American flag, an eagle and a scroll with the words "We the People" -- to be emblazoned on golf shirts, caps, scarves and sweatshirts...
...such actor is Daniel L. Zelman '89, who says that the process is "annoying" at first, but becomes "generally easier," the more one auditions. Nevertheless, he says, "The nervousness never goes completely away...
...with what they have, installing the paintings and sculptures so as to evoke unexpected similarities, rhymes, comparisons, rather than the stolid march of historical sequence. Theirs is a reflective hanging, full of aesthetic surprises, and the most sensible way to make the best of an incomplete conspectus that is, nevertheless, well sprinkled with masterpieces...