Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SANTIAGO. In one half of the city, the illusion of freedom: shops, ads and "free speech"--except for the midnight threats, tortures, beatings and disappearances which keep life on the edge. In the other more than half of the city, paper-board shacks with dirt floors, blinding smog, and growing organization and rage...
...show up on time and sit through all of any lecture we attended; if we wished to visit a class which met at the same time, we had to do so on another day. This has been the rule at every university where I have studied or taught except Harvard...
...curiosity that has been forbidden to her sex. She has a keen eye for daily routines in the old Victorian house, located in what was apparently once Cambridge, Mass. She notes the costume she must wear, a Handmaid's uniform, when she is allowed to go out shopping: "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society...
...J.P.L. are confident that it will stay that way not only through its encounter with Neptune in August 1989 but perhaps until 2010, when it will be far out of the solar system. Says Richard Laeser, the Voyager project manager: "I have no desire to do much else except to ride this thing all the way out into interstellar space...
...Commission trial will consume most of Giuliani's time in the coming months, except when he is overruled by his wife Donna Hanover, an anchor on a local TV station, and their first child Andrew Harold, who was born last week. But Giuliani takes time out for the unexpected pursuit. Not long ago, he attended a memorial Mass for Roger Maris at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Giuliani was that rare thing, a fan who preferred the saturnine Maris over his more popular teammate Mickey Mantle. "Mantle was a better natural hitter," Giuliani explains. "But Maris, a team player, always went...