Word: spites
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...students had won some unspoken contest, coming out on top in spite of the frown-clowns who’d dismissed their course as a naïve self-help seminar. They’d called it a group therapy circle, a class better suited for a church basement than the most prestigious lecture space at Harvard. They had said, in sum, that 1504 was not a real class...
...close associates to gambling. Says an indignant Christine Keshen, a member of Canada's women's curling team: "If people can't lay off of him for what's going on back home, they need to realize this is the Olympics." And that is the point, after all. In spite of patriotic excess, overpowering wedding banquet music and all sorts of anxiety, it is the refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winter. No matter what is said in Dante and his Inferno. For the words to remember are exactly the opposite...
...that is the point, after all, in spite of patriotic excess, overpowering wedding-banquet music and all sorts of anxiety. It is the refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winteran exhilaration felt with the U.S.'s first gold medal on Saturday, won by Chad Hedrick in the men's 5,000m speedskating event. No matter what is said by Dante in his Inferno. For the occasion, his famous line should read, "Reclaim every hope, ye who enter here." Let the Games begin. 34 Team U.S.A.'s magic number to match...
...spite of Kirby’s departure, many Faculty members said they expected the curricular review to proceed as planned...
...spite of its printing drawbacks anyone with an interest in Asian or Korean culture - and anyone with an interest in fresh, humane comics storytelling - should seek out Seyeong O's Buja's Diary. Along with Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man, the two books reveal a side of Asian comix that could redefine the manga/manwha "genre" for most Americans by telling small, mature stories that are rich in complexity, humor and meaning in their unique way as any Western graphic literature...