Word: exception
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While under house arrest Gialanella, who is married, will be restricted to his home except to go to religious services or medical appointments, Mullin said...
...Factor wasn't enough the next weekend. Cornell did everything it needed to do against Brown in Providence. Everything, that is, except win. Brown fell short in every important statistical category, but came out on top, 23-15, thanks to a blocked punt and a 66-yard quarterback sneak...
...father tells these people he isn't a bank. My reactions are about the same--except that I also wonder how a man of the cloth could be so hard of heart...
Making the decision had been wrenching. Last Wednesday, the day after the Senate Judiciary Committee advised against his confirmation, Bork met with a group of die-hard Republican supporters on Capitol Hill. Of the 16 in attendance, all except Wyoming's Alan Simpson, one of Bork's most ardent backers, argued that the judge should let his nomination go to the floor. "There could be 60 votes against him," Simpson hedged. "I don't think a recorded vote like that would be good for Judge Bork...
...title suggests, the characters are intellectual and emotional ciphers. Ellis' documentary intentions are clear, but his laconic descriptions of numb fornications, pharmacological excesses and teenage nihilism come dangerously close to violating Mark Twain's third rule of writing: "That the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others...