Word: spites
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...spite of all those deficiencies, Huckabee has something that no other candidate on the Republican side, save perhaps John McCain, has been able to muster this cycle. With the training of a former Baptist pastor, he has an uncanny ability to move an audience, and a real talent for the endless drudgery of person-to-person retail campaigning. It is a talent that he has also used to his advantage with the media...
...educator I found that bright children sent unprepared to school by clueless parents often surpassed their well-trained peers in reading by the end of second grade. The age-old and inexpensive adage that children read to become readers holds true in spite of anxious parents trying to give an edge to their preschoolers. Suzan Davis, IRVINE, CALIF...
...True to his single-issue focus, Tancredo chose to throw his support behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney out of a mixture of agreement and spite. Romney, "has actually got a record," said Tancredo. "He was governor of a liberal state but opposed drivers licenses for illegal immigrants and instate tuition for illegal immigrants? at a time when they weren't issues on the national scene." As for why the endorsement came now, Tancredo admitted he hoped to hurt the chances of rivals Mike Huckabee and John McCain - both of whom he views as weak on immigration...
...educator I found that bright children sent unprepared to school by clueless parents often surpassed their well-trained peers in reading by the end of second grade. The age-old and inexpensive adage that children read to become readers holds true in spite of anxious parents trying to give an edge to their preschoolers. Suzan Davis, Irvine, Calif...
...November 26, the Veterans' Affairs Minister Abbès warned the nation's largest circulation paper el Khabar, that "there will be no normalizing of relations with France under Sarkozy," whose election he accredited to a French "Jewish lobby" that commands "a monopoly of industry in France." In spite of the outcry across France's political spectrum that the comment caused, Bouteflika's repudiation was mild when stating Abbès' analysis "in no way reflects Algeria's [official] view", and said he'd be greeting the French President "as a friend...