Word: excepts
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...attempting to teach thousands of years of history in three months. The moral reasoning Core could afford to dispose of some of the courses that do not really examine thinking about ethical questions, and to include more that do. The professional schools should also require such courses on morality (except divinity, which seems to have had a monopoly on them), rather than offering the poorly-attended electives on ethics that currently exists...
Throughout his eight-week trial on charges of crimes against humanity, Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo commander of Lyons during World War II, showed no sign of remorse and no great interest in defending himself. Except for three days at the beginning of the proceedings and two forced appearances in order to be identified by witnesses, Barbie exercised his right under French law to boycott the courtroom. The ailing Barbie, 73, seemed almost indifferent to the outcome of the trial. Instead of facing his accusers, he remained in his three-cell complex in St. Joseph prison...
...Syrian President Hafez Assad, to show some signs of moderation in order to increase his influence with his neighbors. In April, not long after his return from a trip to Moscow, Assad went to Jordan for a secret meeting with his long-time enemy, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein. Except for Libya, Syria is the only Arab state that backs non-Arab Iran in its seven-year war with Arab Iraq. Assad is believed unlikely to be ready to change sides in the gulf war, in part because of the oil concessions he gets from Iran. Nonetheless, the meeting raised...
Indeed the earlier CDC investigation of Belle Glade failed to find AIDS infections except among members of traditional risk groups and their sex partners. "If mosquitoes are doing it," said a CDC spokeswoman last week, "they are very selective about who they are biting...
...family, Whitney was singing from the moment she came out," on Aug. 9, 1963, in Newark. After the Newark riots of 1967, the Houstons moved to a two- story house in East Orange, where Cissy still lived until this March. For the most part they were an ordinary family, except that Mom would occasionally hit the road to sing backups for Elvis, Aretha or Dionne. While Cissy toured with her group, the Sweet Inspirations, John, the group's manager, tended the three children. Whitney's half-brother Gary Garland, 28, sings duets and backup in her act; her brother Michael...