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...tells me, "my position has become weaker, because there's been no development, no progress. In spite of my open approach, of maximum concessions, the Chinese position becomes even harder and harder." Last year all photographs of the exiled leader were banned in Tibet, and monks and nuns continue to be imprisoned and tortured at will, in what the International Commission of Jurists long ago called a policy of "genocide." Yet, he argues, all but banging his fist on the arm of his chair, "to isolate China is totally wrong. China needs the outside world, and the outside world needs...
...most famous, and oddest, closing lines of any American play. "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart," the doomed heroine says at the end of The Diary of Anne Frank. The words, taken from the real Anne's journal, were designed to give Broadway audiences an uplifting scoot out the door, a parting affirmation of the human spirit. But it worked only if you didn't think too hard about what happened to the characters in real life. Anne and the seven family members and friends who spent two years hiding from...
...reported that former Station Casino St. Charles [Mo.] customer Sharon Willman continued to get solicitations from the casino in spite of efforts to have her name removed from a promotional mailing list. We would like your readers to know that Willman's name was removed from our mailing list Nov. 1 after a database error was discovered Our company made a mistake, admitted it and corrected it. JACK TAYLOR, Director Corporate Public Relations Station Casinos Inc. Las Vegas...
...spite of the visibility the Grape Coalition has achieved in the last month, one board member predicted a less than outspoken future...
Likewise, faulty and demagogic arguments both against and in favor of capital punishment ought to be pushed aside in favor of serious consideration of the issue. In the end, in spite of the admittedly serious flaws in the process, the death penalty should be limitedly available as a tool of society in dealing with particularly egregious crimes. Many with particular, moral perspectives will disagree on this very personal and contentious issue. But we must clear the underbrush of the debate before we can effectively engage...