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...open the window and she was like ‘ugh fine,’ and opened it,” says Tobey H. Duble ’10, a Currier resident. “Then when we weren’t looking she would shut it just to spite us.” Duble adds, “Also someone puked on the shuttle that night.” Somehow, the 11-minute walk from the Quad to the Square isn’t looking so bad anymore...
...those of us who follow the news and try to report it, these kinds of circumstances are dispiriting. Political assassination is almost routine. Sometimes I feel it is carried out without any real strategy: either out of spite or to enforce the creeping authoritarianism of the status quo, to remind society of where things stand. The assassins and the powers behind them are on automatic; the ordinary citizen has now learned not to be surprised. Saddened, yes. Shocked...
...recent months, Chicago has bathed in pride as the place Barack Obama calls home, in spite of the attendant scrutiny on people like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Tony Rezko. But it is now particularly defensive, if not irate, about the latest local figure to haunt Obama's presidential candidacy: Bill Ayers...
...Crimson’s defeat came in spite of McKinley’s match-high 26 kills—a career high—her hitting percentage of .511, and her 19 digs, making up her second-straight double-double...
...with his approval ratings in the capital Lima falling to 23% in mid-October, his lowest since taking office in July 2006. (As a point of comparison, George Bush has an approal rating of 24%.) The corruption and terrorism headlines may force Garcia's popularity down further. All in spite of Peru's booming economy. "I would not be surprised if Garcia dropped to 10%. Peru is certainly not in bad shape, it just seems that way to many people because we can't get Garcia's first government out of their heads," said Eduardo Farah, head of the national...