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...spite of what appear to be some similar goals, Radcliffe administrators and students advocating for a Women's Center are working at cross-purposes...
...plan on a long life. As a boy, he toyed with suicide, employing, among other means, a dull knife, hay-fever drops and a mild overdose of aspirin; he also survived several sessions of Russian roulette. Grown older, evidently in spite of himself, he left his native England as often as possible to court danger and disease, wherever and whenever they might prove most virulent: Africa, Mexico, Indochina, Cuba, Haiti, Central America. None of these places killed him; instead they furnished material for many of his more than 50 books, including novels, short story collections, travel writings, plays, essays, autobiography...
...failed," Moses says. "In spite of all of it, there are still persons of color who don't feel like they own the place, women who feel alienated, and people who feel they have to compromise themselves too much to be a part of Harvard...
...spite of my recent behavior, I'm not instinctively an elusive person"--Neil Rudenstine
...more weeks for Gates to order a "brick-by-brick" review of police-training procedures, but he was on television the very next day touting his department as a "model" for the nation. Gates' eventual apology to King was equally grudging -- and began with two absurd irrelevancies: "In spite of the fact that he's on parole and a convicted robber, I'd be glad to apologize...