Word: spite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spite of its shooting woes, Harvard turned in two fine defensive performances over the weekend. It was defense that kept the Crimson alive in both games and allowed Harvard to come away with a victory...
...Game at hand, the one thing Yale has going for it is incentive. The Elis may have been dealt a bad hand in life, but they've got an awful lot to play for, from pride to revenge to outright spite...
...Crimson editor, recalls his Expos preceptor commenting: "I don't think we're reading the same stories...Let's see if we're sharing some of the same reality." Also on an Expos paper, Sarah A. Knight '00 discovered that her grader "liked this paper in spite of itself." "That's a terrible thing to say," Knight says. "It's not constructive criticism...
Seldom are labor conflicts settled at the breakfast table, but the lives and welfare of many workers depend on the grapes we choose or do not choose to eat. Harvard's decision to serve grapes again in undergraduate dining halls in spite of the United Farm Workers (UFW) boycott is important...
...seem like an innocent enough come-on. But the unfortunate fact is that Willman, 53, is a compulsive gambler who lost so much money at Station Casino that to protect herself, she arranged to be legally barred from entering the riverboat and taken off its mailing lists. In spite of these efforts, the casino continues to send her a steady stream of solicitations--even though it is now exhorting her to commit an act of criminal trespass. "The mailings just keep on coming," she says. She was told by the management of Station Casino that its computerized database would...