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These reportedly intimate letters, dated between 1989 and 1991, were offered for sale for $240,000 to the London Daily Mirror by "Hewitt's spurned Italian fiancée," but the newspaper refused the offer and handed the letters to the executors of the princess's estate.
The progressives, like their predecessors among the Mugwumps--the independent-minded Republicans who spurned their party's presidential candidate in 1884--and Liberal Republicans and Whigs and Federalists, have long favored fiscal conservatism.
Now that Leonardo Di Caprio has spurned Lions Gate Films and American Psycho , the production company is trying to lure back the director it had rudely kicked off the project, Mary Harron ( I Shot Andy Warhol ). Though the whole thing was her idea in the first place, she was dropped the minute Di Caprio expressed interest and turned an arty $10-million feature into a $40-million vehicle for himself.
In 1998, the adherence to a modest Jewish ritual such as celebrating Hanukkah follows in the tradition of the ancient Israelites, who spurned the pressures to adopt Hellenism.
The Democratic Party spurned Mississippi's "Freedom Party" delegation, seating a bloc of segregationist whites instead.