Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson, Dean of the College Harry Lewis is quoted as saying, about the Tuesday incident in which an Adams House resident was attacked, "It was not late at night on a well-lit street. What can one say except that students, women in particular, should try to travel with someone...
...students] have taken." Lewis' words imply that the student did several things right (not being out late, being in a well-lit area) but nonetheless made a mistake by being alone. Calling attention to the student's actions in this way, especially with the preface "what can one say except...," implies that it is the student's behavior that needs to be changed. This suggests that the assault was, in some way, her fault...
...people who are punching the air at Buchanan rallies are more alarmed about the present, more willing to contemplate radical change, more antigovernment (except when it comes to government promoting traditional values), more antiabortion, more anti-free trade. Talk to them, and you will hear 71% say the country is in deep and serious trouble, 60% that the U.S. should radically reduce its role in international affairs, 56% that the G.O.P. platform should call for a constitutional ban on abortion. (By way of comparison, just 22% of Dole's supporters want an antiabortion amendment, 24% of Alexander...
...tobacco's hit-and-run victims, stuck paying out billions of taxpayer dollars each year to treat the array of health problems wrought by smoking. In other words, says one frustrated tobacco-industry lawyer, "the states are taking the position that they don't have to prove anything except the company sold the cigarettes." This denies tobacco's advocates all their favorite defenses--that the individual's health problems may have been caused by workplace or environmental toxins, or by personal habits such as lack of exercise and a high-fat diet, and that in any case...
...alliance with Dean Lewis is a farcical attempt to revive student government. The second option open to the dean after a council decision is a veto. Because the dean will always get what the dean wants, this bylaws amendment is nothing more than a regurgitation of the current situation, except that now the dean will be able to co-opt student support for his proposals when it is convenient...