Word: exception
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...Except her job was in jeopardy, like, 5 times in one episode, so her nanosecond of brilliance belies her true mental faculties...
...this seems like a totally illogical line of thinking, it may be because the entire concept of "school pride" is inherently irrational. "Spirit" is a manifestation of camaraderie among individuals who may very well have nothing in common except for shared affiliation with a group, be it to a college, a House, or a class year. All too often I hear fellow Harvard students trying to treat spiritedness as if it needs a deeper explanation—"I think there would be so much more House spirit if housing was nonrandomized and I could live with people who shared...
...blog on its official Web site for the past two years, no one read it. UC President Andrea R. Flores '10 explained that having a blog on a separate platform hopefully will make the blog more accessible than the previous one, which she admitted that "nobody updated" (except for Student Relations committee chair Daniel V. Kroop '10, occasionally...
...have nothing to say, except please take good care of my child and send him to school," he was quoted as telling...
Omar's early childhood is both charmed and abusive. Though the family inhabited a mansion in the Saudi city of Jeddah and owned horse ranches in the desert, their father refused to let them have toys, take modern medicine or use almost any modern conveniences except for lightbulbs, automobiles and firearms. Though Osama would punish his boys for laughing or smiling and send them on forced marches in the desert without water, Omar and his brothers could at least console themselves with the honor of being sons of the man who helped defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, a hero...