Word: spites
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...students and teachers," says school director Gérard Héloir. He says that the school is not out to create an institutional form of multiculturalism, but simply to help students integrate into wider French society. "We provide a setting where everyone lives and works together in spite of racial or religious differences, but without allowing those to become dividers or boundaries," says Héloir. "Without compromise, we'd all wind up in our own ghettos...
...economists, psychologists and other experts, the gulf between the public belief in Europe that the euro has sent prices up and official statistics that show it hasn't is providing a rich new area of research, inspring dozens of learned papers with titles such as "Expectancy Confirmation in Spite of Disconfirming Evidence...
...therein lies the greatest problem: “Arlington Park” is too saturated with the miseries of domestic life. It is unrealistic that every mom in a casual group that meets outside the school gates is wildly unhappy with her life as wife and mother. In spite of their (slightly) different situations, the characters are not distinctive; they fade together into a single embodiment of the same frustrations.There are no redeeming qualities to married life, at least as Cusk portrays it in her novel. The children are, if not an additional curse, no compensation. There are no light...
...most immediately noticeable aspect of “Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas” is a giant photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln...
Gomes says that in spite of his controversial legacy, one can’t deny the viability of Lowell’s contributions. “The great irony,” he adds with a laugh, “is that he wouldn’t approve of me, but I approve of him. But I am here, and he is dead...