Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Except for the force many residents would name: the mayor himself. For months he snubbed the board, refused to provide it with basic financial data and called allegations of featherbedding a "big lie." He joined a protest by students at the University of the District of Columbia, who tied up traffic on Connecticut Avenue for 14 hours after hearing that their funds might be cut. His standing fell last week when it was disclosed that he had had a $20,000 security fence built around the mayor's residence under a no-bid contract by a former member...
...mother Catherine Carter looks on approvingly. Jo Ann has earned all A's except for a B in phys ed, and her mother's got the report cards in her pocketbook to prove it. "I was lucky to get her into this school," says Carter, a medical secretary. King, a one-story brick building in a ramshackle area well east of Troost Avenue--Kansas City's approximate racial dividing line--offers an enriched program of classical language and related subjects such as rhetoric. "Well, not lucky--I lied. She didn't get in the first time, so I applied again...
...match that had to be moved from Harvard's normal spring courts at the Beren Tennis Center due to high winds, the Crimson (15-4, 5-0) continued its hot ways against the Bears, with everyone winning except for the first doubles team...
...head of a pin? The truth is, a mechanical system that is complex enough (living or not) may mimic consciousness without actually being conscious. Your entire article might have been the result of such mimicry, as might this letter. Ultimately there is no way to distinguish real from false except via personal experience. I know I'm conscious, but I can't really speak for the rest of you. Peering into the brain is as futile as peering into a TV set to explain the mimicry of a sunset on the screen. ROY BUTTERFIELD Keighley, England Via E-mail...
...wouldn't feel comfortable taking a position on whether or not Ross Perot is crazy, except to point out that people with that much money are customarily described as "eccentric" instead. I can safely make the observation, though, that it's always a mistake for a public figure to say, "I am not insane...