Word: spite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial dominated emotionally by the prosecution. "This was the big moment in the trial," reports TIME's Pat Cole from Denver. "McVeigh's parents made an appeal to a group of strangers to save their son's life," he said. "It made one juror cry, that in spite of what he was involved in, he was still a person who had a family, who had a childhood. But it still may not be enough." The defense needs only one vote to save McVeigh from the death penalty. If they got it Wednesday, the most important tear of the trial will...
...spite of the criticisms leveled at the idea of a Great Books curriculum, Joyce M. Greening '72, a veteran of General Education, offers her support of Mansfield's program...
...will return to serve on religious boards, to head city planning commissions, sit on the bench, flip pancakes at school breakfasts and raise children. We will return, sometimes in spite of the best-laid plans, because we wonder who will act if we do not. We will think of how our communities could benefit from the liberal education we have received. And we will know that we have a responsibility to give back to the towns that raised...
...spite of this success, the tournament was far from over. The following day pitted Harvard against third-seeded Brown, the only other team in the tournament that had yet to lose...
...spite of the hesitance of these two seniors, 224 seniors, or about 14 percent of the class, did participate in the program. The entries resulted in 85 matches, about one-third of the pool. Some participants had more than one match...