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...spite of these successes within the system, the candidate says he is committed to complete reform of the current political structure...
...consolidated his control over the party's social-affairs department, which had a "liquidation" division: "So notorious was Kang's taste for inflicting pain . . . it earned him a title," the King of Hell. The authors compare him with Iago, Rasputin and Stalin's secret-police chief, Lavrenti Beria. In spite of the book's rather breathless style, the analogies seem...
...northwest and northeast serve as the Kurds' lifelines. In spite of the international embargo, cross-border trade with Turkey is booming. Hundreds of trucks arrive daily, carrying everything from food and medical supplies to machine tools. On their return trips, the rigs ferry thousands of gallons of illicit Iraqi gasoline and oil to Turkey that are sold at 10 times the purchase price...
...calculation. Clinton said that he opposed the draft and the war and that he was "in great sympathy with those who are not willing to fight, kill and maybe die for their country . . . right or wrong." But he would not resist the draft. He would "accept the draft in spite of my beliefs for one reason: to maintain my political viability within the system...
...either because it's the '90s now and rearview time, or because the stuff is too good to ignore any longer, many Americans have been looking back in spite of themselves at the incredible trove of Broadway show tunes and pop melodies composed between roughly 1920 and 1950 and finding it not only good but great, even classical, in a loose-jointed, informal American sense of the word...