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Cambridge City Council members unanimously supported the extension of City Manager Robert W. Healy’s contract in a public hearing yesterday, in spite of several critical comments from residents...
...spite of the “sleazy” guys, the women seem aware that this is their turf at all times, and as such, they will act on their own terms. While they may feel objectified at times, it is still their party, the women’s party. In fact, it seems that they would still be having a good time if there were no boys present...
...students had won some unspoken contest, coming out on top in spite of the frown-clowns who’d dismissed their course as a naïve self-help seminar. They’d called it a group therapy circle, a class better suited for a church basement than the most prestigious lecture space at Harvard. They had said, in sum, that 1504 was not a real class...
...Still, even Gretzky understands the potential downside of choosing to come to Torino in spite of the media storm."If we don't win the gold medal, I'll get blamed, but I've been blamed for losses before," Gretzky said. Just not necessarily for something so far afield from the game being played...
...that is the point, after all, in spite of patriotic excess, overpowering wedding-banquet music and all sorts of anxiety. It is the refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winteran exhilaration felt with the U.S.'s first gold medal on Saturday, won by Chad Hedrick in the men's 5,000m speedskating event. No matter what is said by Dante in his Inferno. For the occasion, his famous line should read, "Reclaim every hope, ye who enter here." Let the Games begin. 34 Team U.S.A.'s magic number to match...