Word: spites
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reasoning may seem unfair to Bush and Cheney. They were grown men using grown men's language, as leaders have for generations. But the nebulous concept of morality is, after all, part of the social-issues glue Karl Rove has counted on to hold together the conservative base, in spite of policy foul-ups and exploding deficits. The Bush-era FCC dutifully indulged that base's outrage. Now--well, let it never be said the President has no family-values legacy...
DeLong added: “So Andrei’s first impression was that I was a true genius. This first impression has stuck with him—in spite of much evidence to the contrary—for 21 years, and has greatly enriched my life.” ONE IN CAMBRIDGE...
...powerful father-in-law has had Kazakhstan's Prosecutor General's Office close down several print, broadcast and online outlets of the media-holding company controlled by Aliyev and Dariga. That vast empire will be now redistributed among the President's supporters. The police searched Dariga's house, in spite of her immunity as a member of parliament. "Getting rid of Aliyev is good news," says one analyst in Kazakhstan. "The way he is being got rid of is bad news, though. Scoundrels fighting villains in roguish ways doesn't promise any good...
...also a sign that McCain, like many people, did not fully understand how much the evangelical landscape had changed since Falwell first arrived back in the 1970s to reshape it. The current climate exists both because and in spite of him: no one did more to usher fundamentalist Christians into the political arena, but he could not control what happened once they got there...
...take off his shoes, in a dissonant but oddly endearing tribute to both the conservative costume of Harvard yore and the liberal spirit of the occasion. Harvard’s College Events Board (CEB) should be commended for a Yardfest that succeeded in spite of inclement weather. But amid the frivolity of a two-story slide, a tire swing, and the strains of “Semi-Charmed Life,” we could not help but reflect that the College community would perhaps be better served by more frequent, but smaller events rather than the occasional pan-campus blowout...