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...spite of these important similarities, some pettifoggers will surely complain that the $7 billion disparity between the endowments would make Harvard, as compared with Yale, a much “wealthier” or “more financially sound” or “more able to pay for top-notch faculty, facilities, and student financial aid” type of institution...
...indeed the cast’s spirit remained high during the last week of rehearsal, in spite of lost props and anxious dreams about the upcoming performance. The actors began each rehearsal with physical and verbal games, such as selecting a line from the script and repeating it as their characters might, before working on particular scenes...
Instead, the Bush administration recently assured Turkish leaders that in exchange for Turkey’s support against Saddam, the United States will not support the creation of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. This deal comes in spite of the recent flowering of Kurdish civil society in the northern No-Fly-Zone under the protection of American and British air forces. Northern Iraq is home to several Kurdish political parties, Kurdish-language newspapers and television stations, and in May 2002, the Kurdish community held local council elections, an event that is unthinkable in the rest of Iraq. Kurdish...
...spite of the early difficulty, the pair came back with a very strong showing, winning three of the remaining eleven races, placing in the top-three on seven occasions and in the top-five 10 times...
...truck and had to be hospitalized—for minor injuries, as it turned out; he could easily have become a quadriplegic. Police assigned to the event described it as “chaos” due to the unlimited access to the numerous kegs present, in spite of assurances from students beforehand that parties would be kept under control...