Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine your four-year-old boy--healthy, cheerful, with a bright future you take for granted--suddenly swept into an epileptic seizure. He goes stiff; his eyes roll up; his jaw is clenched. Except for his piglet squeals, he might have been dead for a minute or two. Children during grand mal attacks seem possessed; in the New Testament, epilepsy is referred to as a "demon." So the mother of an epileptic boy first looks at doctors as exorcists. But as she sees them prescribe a series of harsh medications, each creating side effects that the next is supposed...
...need guns? What purpose do they have in society except to encourage murder and mayhem? Why shouldn't guns be banned? Anyone caught using a gun while committing a crime should be put behind bars for the rest of his or her life. If this punishment won't deter crime, I don't know what will. KANCHAN K. LALL Wallingford, Pennsylvania...
...poor, as Eva did? One wonders why Evita was made for the screen in the first place. Even talented director Alan Parker could not save Madonna. She may be a good singer and music-video and stage performer, but she is clearly not a good actress! She looked pathetic, except in the last sequence, when Evita says her farewell. That was the only time I saw an emotional reaction from the movie audience. Madonna should stop copying others and play only herself. MOSTAFA SHOWRAKI North York, Ontario
...hate Valentine's Day because all the cute little presents make me puke," Josh S. Shirkey '98 says. "It's just a day; it has no bearing on me except that the stores explode and PDA runs riot...
...added that he believes the club's gender ratio is comparable to any other campus group, "except for the Radcliffe Union of Students...