Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Except for the power to distribute funds to undergraduate organizations, the Yale College Council (YCC), Yale's 27-member student government, has no bottom-line authority. Nor do the student-faculty committees to which it appoints members. But this lack of tangible power has not prevented the council from making itself heard on a variety of undergraduate issues...
Weeks says there are presently ten active women in PUMA and another 150 on their mailing list. "Except for two, they're all call girl level,"--as opposed to streetwalkers--Weeks says of the active members, adding that many of the prostitutes PUMA works with are "teachers, nurses, cooks and students. A lot of our women are students putting themselves through shool...
...guess an opening game loss doesn't hurt, except that it ruins the chances for an undefeated season. I'm still bummed though. I think I'll go up to Hanover and egg Don O'Brien...
...been besieged by first-person accounts of their trips. There is, of course, a long history of such travelers' tales about China, starting with Marco Polo; the West doesn't seem to get tired of the genre, as if it were unable to comprehend the nature of Chinese society except from a personal viewpoint...
...telephone and all their updated versions. Edison, certainly, was driven by a cause larger than money. He was an experimenter of prodigious energy, diving headlong into every problem that presented itself. He worked so hard at inventing that he rarely had time to spend the money he made, except on lab equipment or perhaps a new house. For Edison, money was simply a sign that his inventions were working. He once told a young colleague, "Whatever you do, Sammy, make a brilliant success of it or a brilliant failure. Just do something. Make...