Word: spites
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...overflowing with used books and distressed leather armchairs. Its Web site a is no-nonsense list of new stock and pictures of the store locations. Bookstores like Commonwealth rely on a small, hard-core demographic that is willing to pay a premium for the experience of book buying in spite of the convenience of Amazon.com or large chains. This reliance on consumer loyalty creates a unique relationship between small bookstores and their patrons. Most booksellers allow their shoppers liberties that other industries don’t. Few grocery stores allow you to sit for hours at a time in their...
...poisoned, someone needs to act the peacemaker. If people are stiff, someone needs to act the clown. There is something dishonest and contrived about this arrangement, to be sure. If students were naturally enthusiastic about the course material (and did the reading), they would have lively interchanges in spite of their personalities. Perhaps so, but if good discussion does not occur organically, the next best option is to induce it artificially. Charlie E. Riggs ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Quincy House...
...spite of the surprises that Rice found on the ground in Jerusalem, a senior State Department official familiar with the negotiations was unbowed in pushing for peace talks this fall. "We've got plenty of time," said the official, "the way these things work it may not come together for a while. We wouldn?t be coming here if it wasn't for a purpose," adding, there is "some sense of pregnant opportunity...
...wanted," she wrote Périer in 1955. A year later she sounded desolate: "Such deep longing for God - and ... repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. - [The saving of] Souls holds no attraction - Heaven means nothing - pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything...
...spite of the fact that many of the more common cancers, including skin cancer and lung cancer, are associated with behaviors such as sunbathing and smoking early in life, 25% of respondents believed that such behaviors do not increase long-term cancer risk...