Word: nevertheless
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This year's decision to disclose lottery numbers before rooming forms are due is a step in the right direction because it stresses roommate choice above house choice. Nevertheless, the only way to avoid encouraging parochialism and needless anxiety is an entirely random process for placing rooming groups in houses. A random housing lottery would not stop students from self-selecting into groups of friends with shared interests and attitudes. Nor should it. But by diminishing the importance of stereotypes, a random lottery would help to eliminate hostility and disdain between people with different attitudes and lifestyles...
...SUPREME COURT, which has never actually heard a case challenging juvenile executions and has thus never explictly condoned the practice, nevertheless lets the individual states set their minimum ages. In the 35 states which permit capital punishment, six have set the minimum at 18, 15 have set minimums ranging from 10 to 17 years, 11 permit executions at all ages while requiring judges to consider youth a mitigating factor, and three (Delaware, Oklahoma, and South Dakota) have no minimums whatsoever...
...least $300,000, and though he gambled much of it away, he had parlayed his take into real estate and other investments worth $700,000. Throughout his four-day trial, Chin insisted that he had only intended to improve relations between his homeland and his adopted country. Nevertheless, he became the first American to be convicted of spying for China, and faced life in prison...
...their jobs in accordance with the college's rules. "Once in your class you play by the rules of the master," says Dean Ozment. Evidently, the dean has lost perspective. When professors agree to teach at Harvard, they are not granted little fiefdoms over which to exercise absolute control. Nevertheless, the dean's works are more relevant to the faculty than students. When we accept admission to Harvard, students agree to abide by the rules. If we cannot operate in accordance with the college's rules, we are asked to leave. Likewise, those professors who cannot perform their duties within...
...Nevertheless, Brandeis protesters were too busy dissociating themselves from other divestment activists even to consider sympathizing with them...