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...cast a shadow on some of the past days’ saber-rattling, too—for example, Ferraro said yesterday, “I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?” In spite of all evidence to the contrary, she seems convinced that American voters are practicing affirmative action on their secret ballots...
Regardless of having never played on a winning team during his career in Cambridge, Unger had remained the epitome of a stoic warrior continuing to battle in spite of inevitable defeat...
Stuart Dash, Cambridge’s director of community planning, said that in spite of recent development, the city’s density has been steadily reduced over the past 40 years, both in terms of height and number of residences...
...argument for its maintenance is old, tired, and in fact, far less nuanced than we might think. Any geopolitical excuses we once had for this vengeful act of soft imperialism have disappeared with the downfall of communism; its harsh measures are today propped up only by stubbornness and spite. Any moral argument surely cannot justify the suffering of the Cuban people, which in some respects is no one’s responsibility...
...While my own undergraduate curriculum sometimes seemed, in spite of my best attempts, like a motley assortment of disconnected subjects, I always consoled myself with the thought that at least the agency I had been given was empowering. I was learning to take control of an intellectual project, formulating questions that interested me and seeking ways to answer them. I doubt that the program at Cambridge has the same intent. It demonstrates less confidence in the ability of undergraduates to create a meaningful program of study. Yet, in spite of such pedagogical constraints, the intellectual life here is just...