Word: spites
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...even when it became the mainstream.” But beyond these interesting—and largely superficial—coincidences, there isn’t much common ground between Kurt and Slim. While Cobain always protested the sort of social order that embraces misogyny and homophobia, Eminem, in spite of the color-blindness he seems to have acquired growing up as a rapper in the heart of Detroit, isn’t ready to extend that open-mindedness to gays and women. Also, aside from the level of self-referencing that’s become proper form...
...offer. One leaves feeling disconcerted, but the visitors from the Show-Me state are just the first to cast one in the role one was to fill ever after, each time one crossed the Yard: one has become a host trying hard to please, and, in spite of one’s better instinct, has developed a cheerleading spirit about this University...
...spite of concerns and even some expectations, Montijo is still with the Crimson for her final spring...
...electorate opposed Azanar’s decision to send troops in the first place. The majority of swing voters—those who switched their votes to the Socialists in the wake of bombings—had planned to vote for Azanar’s Popular Party in spite of its policy on Iraq...
...most senior news editors. They concluded damningly, “[Top administrators] seem incapable or unwilling to acknowledge that new procedures and attitudes represent a blow to transparency, and that this is a problem.” Of course, the complaints of two undergraduates, in spite of their rhetorical potency, should probably not trouble Kirby excessively. More worryingly for Kirby, though, over the past week 11 Faculty members, from a broad range of disciplines, voiced similar concerns to me, arguing that their dean was aloof and unengaged with their priorities...