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...said that politics make strange bedfellows; the committee that must work together in spite of its differences is an apt example of the adage. These bedfellows, however, are not as strange to each other as their public sparring might indicate...
...only notion that could torpedo the harmony of the hearings is the possibility that Republicans are accepting Ginsburg as a lesser evil. In spite of Ginsburg's years of lobbying and advocacy for women's rights, Ginsburg is not as liberal as she might seem...
...spite of the impression created by images of levees and houses being overrun by rising waters, the mounds of earth and rock built to contain the Mississippi around population centers have by and large worked. At week's end, along 600 miles of swollen, surging river, most major levees continued to hold...
Bamberger says the walk also goes against the conventional wisdom that the early days of a campaign should be used to raise money. In spite of the time consumed by this unusual method of campaigning. Barrett has already raised $2,50,000, Bamberger says...
...novel, in spite of its erotic theme, is strangely sterile and unappealing. The characters are not fully developed. They do not engage us. The reader neither cares about nor understands their motivations or the tortured questionings of their hermetically sealed, inconsequential lives. This work reads like an unfinished draft, a semi-literate assault on what the author perceives as society's narrow-minded preconceptions...