Word: spites
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...deans of Harvard in reports written to Lowell and other administrators. They described the first reading period as a success. “I cannot say too much praise of the way in which students worked and the almost entire absence of fault-finding and underhand practices, in spite of the crowded condition of the room,” wrote William C. Lane, College Librarian, in a Feb. 4, 1928 letter to Lowell. His missive also included statistics on the number of employees hired for overtime and explained the cost of a fan used to make the reading room more...
...affairs and processes of the UC.” The infeasibility of a third committee option should have been clear in light of the “what should a third committee do” discourse in the past few weeks, and the proposal of an OSC in spite of this reality suggests that UC members were struck with a pretentious amnesia of one simple fact: The UC exists to serve a function, functions don’t exist to serve the UC.Since the UC refuses to redress their ineptitude when it comes to restructuring, students should...
...spite of how relatively obscure their rebel cause is on the world stage, the attacks by Sri Lanka's Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (L.T.T.E) always seem to draw lots of attention. Such was the case Thursday when a squadron of speedboat suicide bombers rammed into a Sri Lankan navy troop carrier convoy off the country's northern coast, killing 17 sailors. The Sri Lankan government claimed to kill more than 50 Tamil Tigers in return, but the deadly operation had already reminded the world that the Tigers are the fathers of modern-day suicide bombing - not only masters...
...Sarkozy were to savage one another ahead of the first round of presidential voting, after all, it could lead embittered backers of whichever candidate doesn't make the run-off to withhold their votes in the second round - or cast them for the probable Socialist finalist out of spite. "In either scenario, the short-term winner of a split is the left," Reyni? says...
...said that, looking into the future, he saw no reason for U.S. and Japanese policy goals to diverge significantly. Cautioning critics of the U.S. presence in Japan, he reaffirmed the value of American involvement. “Peace in Asia over the last 50 years has not been in spite of, but because of, U.S. power,” he said. At the close of the session, Schieffer stressed the advantages of the Japanese-American cooperation. “We just need a little imagination...to make the world a better place,” he said...