Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example: No one else celebrated day-light saving time by wearing black and walking with candles, except for a few drunk frosh...
Paris and Philadelphia were never exactly sister cities, except maybe to Benjamin Franklin. In current movie terms, and when the incendiary issue of AIDS is raised, the towns couldn't be further apart. The hit film Philadelphia treats its subject gingerly, making its hero a saint and a near monogamist. Cyril Collard's French film Savage Nights is defiantly incorrect, even reckless, in its political agenda. Its hero is a fellow who is HIV positive but continues to have unprotected sex. C'est la vie. C'est la mort. No big difference...
From his perch overlooking Sarajevo's downtown, a Bosnian Serb sniper named Pipo watches people strolling the streets he thinks of as his. He likes to picture the streets the way they were before the cease-fire two weeks ago: fearful, deserted. "Everyone likes peace except me," he says. "I like...
...things in my plan that aren't there," as President Clinton put it in an interview on CBS This Morning. Koziol to the contrary, for example, the plan would have little if any effect on the benefits he gets from GM, and it proposes no direct new taxes except for one on tobacco (though new insurance premiums that some companies and workers would have to pay are often considered a tax by another name). As for fears of declining quality of care, a more cogent criticism would be that the Administration has made the benefits it would guarantee to everybody...
...three- strikes provision would double the incarcerated population, require 20 new prisons and swell the current $2.8 billion corrections-department budget by about $2 billion. "We can't afford it," says John Vasconcellos, chairman of the state assembly's Ways and Means committee. "There would be no California left, except for the police and prison state...