Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preseason practice for a club sport is almost unheard of in modern times. Except in the case of the Harvard Rugby Club...
Williams, an analyst for the Senate BudgetCommittee, received an M.B.A. from Colorado Statein 1983, two years before attending the KennedySchool. He has also finished all the requirementsfor his professional business degree except adissertation for a Ph.D in public finance...
...Schoolgrads--says that his years in Cambridge provided"a very good background for people who expect tohave a career on the Hill," he adds it was not theperfect education. As Van Hollen says, "It's hardto think of anything that can really prepare youfor working on the Hill except for being here...
...provocative writings: That's what academic writing is supposed to be all about -- daring and speculative and provocative, trying out ideas. You don't see that kind of writing in my professional work. In academic life, not much is at stake except whether your brain is working that day. But as a judge, you can't run counter to the conventional wisdom unless you're absolutely sure you're correct...
...solipsism and sanctimony can look. The mock-religious cloud that formed around abstract expressionism when it was becoming America's first imperial style, coupled with the grip of the academies since, all but wrecked the middle ground between the sublime and the trivial. How many American artists, except for a few loners like Saul Steinberg and Ed Keinholz, are both really good and really, mordantly funny? By and large, America dislikes satire; it wants its humor cute and warm. Hence Grooms' success...