Word: spiteful
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...ballot are over pot initiatives: to allow the city of San Francisco to grow and distribute medical marijuana, to replace jail with rehab in Ohio and decriminalize marijuana use in Arizona. Many of these proposals are relatively modest, but the pro-pot forces are also raising the stakes. In spite of the electorate's contentment with the paradox of loose enforcement, some particularly powerful people on both sides have taken extreme viewpoints in an effort to end the political stalemate and force Americans to choose. Either pot is not so bad and should be legal, or people should be arrested...
...Harvard kicks off its first curricular review in three decades, there is great news at hand. In spite of complaints from a number of sulky students and a few unenthused faculty members, the Core Curriculum continues to flourish. Indeed, the Core forms the heart of the liberal arts education for all students at this elite Ivy League college—and looks set to do so for many years to come...
...fusion is represented by the fashionable Uley, which serves rack of lamb and Chilean sea bass, but a mere pot of green tea there will set you back $20. Another chic place is Syr (Russian for cheese), whose decor suggests the inside of a Swiss cheese and which in spite of that has very good Italian food...
...signals about the authenticity of the work. Ostensibly the book is fiction, written by a girl named "Minnie Goetze," the character Gloeckner has used in nearly all her stories. Though Minnie looks exactly like her creator, Gloeckner has insisted in interviews that she is not Minnie. In spite of this the cover features a photo of the teenaged Gloeckner, noted as "the real Minnie Goetze" in the illustration list. Both this and the subtitle, "an account in words and pictures," rather than "a novel," clearly point towards straight autobiography. The pretense of fiction may give the author some legal room...
...spite of their separate themes, the two discs and the songs that make them up flow seamlessly into one another, effectively conjuring the illusion that the listener is actually at a concert. The band is brilliant and entirely in accord with Difranco’s intense and jazzy guitar playing style, while she fearlessly delivers her no-nonsense, thought-provoking lyrics...