Word: spite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...River Edge apartment complex, with a view of the magnificent cliffs of the Palisades and the olive green waters of the Hudson. He lived with Caroline Costello, who had been deeply in love with him since their undergraduate years at Yale, and continued to love him in spite of his illness. They were ideal tenants. They were quiet neighbors. They were engaged to be married. She was talking to a rabbi about converting to Judaism, her lover's faith. And she had become pregnant. Then, last Wednesday, Costello was stabbed more than 10 times with a chef's knife...
...plaintiffs, Philadelphian Gary Rodwell, who uses I-95 once a week to take his seven-year-old son in Baltimore to Cub Scout meetings, told TIME he was enraged at being stopped: "In spite of everything I've done to live on the right side of the law, someone has made a decision that I'm not worthy of freely traveling...
There are two things that Lance Morrow failed to mention in his review "The Lives of the Saint," concerning President Jimmy Carter [BOOKS, May 11]. One is that in spite of the mistakes made during the 1979-81 hostage crisis, Carter brought 53 Americans home safe, including my husband, Bruce, charge d'affaires in Iran. Those of us who went through that ordeal with Carter were grateful he was President, because he and Rosalyn Carter showed the hostages and their families enormous compassion. The second is that in the week prior to the dedication of the multimillion-dollar Reagan Building...
Only a cerebral Gumby would remain unsculpted by the mental body-building required to translate James Joyce's Ulysses into Mandarin Chinese. In spite of extensive time spent in Beijing doing just that, Patrick Kavanagh's latest project, his first novel, is not so stylistically influenced as one might think. Rather than plunging into boggy streams of consciousness, Kavanagh emulates Joyce's focus on style more than his actual stylistic techniques, resulting in an ornately wrought work with a commanding sense of place and experience...
Even if science declares the shroud not genuine, that will not change the faith of the millions who venerated it before the ruling and the millions who will continue to do so afterward. In spite of the advances made by science, it cannot alter the inner belief that each human being possesses. ALEX S. MAALIW Noisiel, France...