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...team plans to move on in spite of such developments, and as Begert comments, news of Restic's departure might be greatly exaggerated as far as its effects on the upcoming season...
...recent studies seem to confirm that homosexuality is as genetically based as being blue-eyed or lefthanded. And heterosexuals, whether out of tolerance or spite, have been only too happy to concede to gays a special and probably congenital identity of their own. It's a way of saying, We're on this side of the great sexual divide -- and you're on that...
...spite of his protestations to the contrary, many of Boesky's former colleagues say he must have whisked a million or two into an offshore haven. Despite their best efforts, however, investigators have been unable to find it. Considering his own admission that his lawsuit is "humiliating" and the fact that his plea agreement would be revoked if he lies, Ivan Boesky, who built a fortune on fraud, might just be telling the truth...
Change, in fact, has been far-reaching. Connolly said when he got to the sandwich bar, he waited to be served as he had been during his undergraduate years. In spite of self-service, Connolly said he was impressed with the Lowell House dinning hall and liked the wider variety of food...
...first institution to engage in such hypocrisy. In 1984, Harvard banned all sexual relations between faculty-this included professors and teaching fellows-and the students they supervised. Harvard was one of the first American universities to institute such a rule, in spite of the fact that one of its most prized professors, John Kenneth Galbraith, was also married to a former student...