Word: spitefully
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...same time, he celebrates the teachers who foster a love of learning in underprivileged students in spite of dilapidated buildings, crowded classrooms, and tattered books that hinder learning. Kozol’s dedication, born in the civil rights era, still resonates with students...
...named Ross Perot don't propose fuel-tax hikes. Interestingly, though, to fight global warming, Clinton, McCain and Obama are all in favor of a carbon-cap-and-trade regimen, which would raise the price of fossil fuels just as surely as a direct tax would. Almost in spite of ourselves, we may end up with a semi-rational long-term energy policy. It won't make gas cheaper anytime soon - or perhaps ever - but in the long run, it could strengthen the country's economic prospects...
...good news is that, in spite of ourselves, most of us already are. We all know the musical prodigies with no social skills and the social butterflies with awful grades, but the large mass of us are pretty smart, pretty social, pretty adaptable, and pretty driven. And, as the Syeshas of the world, we’re bound to win. Or at least wind up in the finals...
...young crowd that apparently likes to see pretty people - especially upwardly striving ones like Diaz's character - humiliated and abused in ways that are stupefyingly familiar. I'm beginning to think that these kids represent a resentment demographic, less eager to laugh than they are to exercise spite and envy at peers who want to grow up sensibly rather than throw up mindlessly in some sleazebag movie...
...Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex. And in spite of GossipGeek’s arbitrary dictums on whose blurry cellphone photos and dubious dining hall sightings are newsworthy, some people retain more celebrity status than others. So what do they have that I don?...