Word: spites
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When I saw the cover image of Vice President Dick Cheney [March 19], I thought I would be reading an informative and factual piece, in spite of the cute cloud you put over his head. Instead, I pored over an opinion piece with a number of unattributed quotes, more condemnation of the President and the Iraq war and a diatribe against I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby...
...nothing to prove. His life story suggests otherwise. The leader of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) and for many years a minor presence in the rarefied world of French politics, Bayrou has emerged as a serious contender for the country's presidency. He has done so in spite of his homespun background. A smallholder's son from the Pyrenees, saddled with a stutter as a kid, he never rounded off his résumé at one of France's prestigious grandes écoles as many politicians do. Yet it's exactly Bayrou's ordinariness, his lack...
...response to the dismal economic conditions of the black community to which Americans have turned their spite. America—for all of its grand ideals such as social equality, class mobility, and equal opportunity—has labeled a whole race of people as second-class citizens...
...It’s kind of a weird feeling, but I think that’ll help us more to play well this weekend.” Traveling to Potsdam, N.Y. for the quarterfinal conference, Harvard hopes to come into the contest with focus and composure in spite of the unique challenges that arise when on the road. “It’s funny because last week it didn’t feel like we were going to lose or there was a chance we could lose,” Reese said. “But now we?...
...would feel if, after he and the other jurors put so much thought in this verdict, it was all wiped away by a White House pardon. "If Bush pardons Libby, I wouldn't be upset a bit," he said, "I don't have any anger or spite about Mr. Libby. I just don't think that...