Word: excepted
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Harvard should have been singing that song earlier this month--except here it would be called "The Harvard Name: 10; Harvard Teaching...
Harvard dominated the statistics in last year's contest, all except for the final score. The Crimson blasted over 40 shots at the Lions' net compared to about a half-dozen Columbia scoring opportunities. However, Harvard didn't finish their plays, while Columbia converted on two breakaways...
...February of 1954, thanks to an accelerated school program rather than any brilliance on my part, I graduated from Morris High School two months short of my 17th birthday. Except for a certain facility in unloading prams at Sickser's, a neighborhood store where I worked part time, I had not yet excelled at anything. I was the "good kid," the "good worker," nothing more. I did well enough at Morris to win a letter for track, but after a while I found slogging cross-country through Van Cortlandt Park boring, and so I quit. I switched...
...current crop of divisive national issues. He says "our leaders" must be "willing to talk straight to the American people" about entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, but he doesn't--and refused to elaborate in last week's interview with TIME. Affirmative action is good except when it's bad, he says. Jobs "are the best answer to most of our social ills...We have to start thinking of America as a family." And so he goes, on and on in a series of deflections covered in a breathy tease: "What you're going to hear...
...island's coast. Greenpeace bought the boat somewhat casually at dockside in Papeete and equipped it in four days, without sea testing and without including a long-range radio transmitter or receiver. (The diesel engine died four hours into the voyage, so the vessel also lacked electric power, except a little generated by solar panels, and thus had no functioning refrigerator or electric bilge pump.) A tiny shortwave radio occasionally brought in a scrap of intelligence. Somebody had reached the quarter-finals at the U.S. Open. An Australian-rules football team had lost...