Professor Levi knows Virgil so well he hardly bothers spelling out the stages of his life.

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He is one of the centrists whom Mr Bush will need if he is to work across party lines, so this ritual hazing hardly boded well.

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True, but with Beethoven as never before individual human aspirations, fears and passion are central to the music, threatening to overwhelm its structure, albeit never (well, hardly ever) doing so.

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So long as well-shafts are properly sealed, there is hardly any risk that fracking will poison groundwater.

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Sure, the kickstand means you can set it up on a coffee table if you like, but that's hardly the ideal, couch-based, lean-back experience most tablets do so well.

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Nokia has done hardly any advertising for Ovi so far: it wanted to make sure that its services worked well first.

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So I hardly think avoiding a consumerist mindset is exclusive to thinking about creating a vibrant future economy led by well-educated Americans.

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