Word: exception
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...excellent chance to halt this sacrilege, before Sony-Disney get on board and turn a natural gem into a theme park. The "opposite shore" of the pond remains, at the moment, pristine--so you can see what used to be. The fucked-up side, incredibly, is now forbidden except to "hard hats." The second side goes next...
Friends at other schools are amazed at the breadth and quality of the academic and extracurricular pursuits on this campus, at the responsibilities that mere teenagers are able to shoulder. The entire world, it seems, recognizes that Harvard students are very much adults--the entire world, that is, except Harvard's own administration...
...Area. Roper is no Dirty Eddie; he's a negotiator who has to ingratiate himself with the malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances for Murphy-style comedy, none of which writer Randy Feldman or director Thomas Carter bothered to exploit. Except for a decent scene in which Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie to be Eddie. It's as if Carter thought the project was a smooth vehicle that Murphy could simply ride in, when it's really...
...defense went from No. 23 in the league to No. 2. "Other teams had to double- and triple-team Reggie," says Favre. "He also totally transformed the locker room." White's influence is not unlike that of Willie Stargell on the "We Are Fam-a-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates, except that the sounds in the clubhouse aren't disco but gospel. The other day, Favre took a ribbing from White after he asked if the gospel chorus some Packers were singing in the shower was Lighter Fluid. (It was Whiter Blood...
Robert Rebres knows the drill. First you get downsized, then you start pounding on doors for a job--except that this time employers were pounding on his door. When the mechanical engineer was laid off last November by Genesis Technology, a supplier of business machines in Hayward, California, his phone started ringing. A bidding war ensued before Rebres, 57, accepted an offer that paid $12,000 more than...