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...accounts are dispassionate dialectics on sexuality and the human condition (Millet is French, after all). What's missing is any satisfying sense of what motivated her exploits, which even by libertine standards seem excessive. The most she offers is that she suffered from social awkwardness, which she learned to defray by lifting her skirts. "I saw the sexual act as a refuge into which I willingly abandoned myself as a way of avoiding embarrassing eye contact," she writes...
...Crimson article on the arrangement noted the dilapidated condition of the property, describing the first floor, covered with paint cans and bottles of disinfectant, as “a work in progress.” But students moved in immediately to help defray costs by paying rent for their housing. They painted and cleaned and, pretty soon, Sigma Chi had a cozy home to call their...
...hopes that HDNet will soon broadcast round the clock, Cuban is on a buying spree for content. Last month he signed a deal to broadcast 80 Major League Baseball games this season. He has laid expensive high-def cable in 40 stadiums. He helped NBC defray the costs of broadcasting the 2002 Winter Olympics in high-def so he could carry them on his network. He is shopping in Hollywood for 35-mm movies to be converted to high def. A kids' show is in the works. He even sent veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett to Afghanistan to report...
...could also be used to defray debt incurred as the church worked on projects stemming from the 1999 capital campaign, according to Chris Pollari, head of the committee charged with spending the bequest money...
...House Committee funded the renovations, but is also hoping to secure funds from the House adminstration to help defray the cost, said Nancy J. Chang ’02, the House Committee secretary...