Word: spites
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...story and the ramifications of her actions strike a chord. Eastwood is clearly a master storyteller, but “Changeling” does not have the same quality that some of his darker films, like “Mystic River,” can boast. In spite of all this, “Changeling,” unlike Eastwood’s other bleak dramas, revels in the capacity of the human spirit for strength and love—something that, as Christine says, “Gives me something I didn’t have before tonight?...
...spite of this, Wilcove said he was glad that he had sparked a debate, as long as he promoted discussion of environmental issues...
...open the window and she was like ‘ugh fine,’ and opened it,” says Tobey H. Duble ’10, a Currier resident. “Then when we weren’t looking she would shut it just to spite us.” Duble adds, “Also someone puked on the shuttle that night.” Somehow, the 11-minute walk from the Quad to the Square isn’t looking so bad anymore...
...those of us who follow the news and try to report it, these kinds of circumstances are dispiriting. Political assassination is almost routine. Sometimes I feel it is carried out without any real strategy: either out of spite or to enforce the creeping authoritarianism of the status quo, to remind society of where things stand. The assassins and the powers behind them are on automatic; the ordinary citizen has now learned not to be surprised. Saddened, yes. Shocked...
...recent months, Chicago has bathed in pride as the place Barack Obama calls home, in spite of the attendant scrutiny on people like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Tony Rezko. But it is now particularly defensive, if not irate, about the latest local figure to haunt Obama's presidential candidacy: Bill Ayers...