Word: excepts
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There is, of course, ample room for honest disagreement as to when the harm done by individuals acting freely outweighs that done by restricting their freedom. But, it's always a trade-off, and if the restrictions serve no purpose except that of imposing majority values on a minority (as seems the case with the Clubs), we sell freedom cheap by accepting them...
...Except for a sudden dash across the sky by Halley's comet--which appears about as often as the Patriots do in the Super Bowl--not much is going to deter 90 million Americans from watching the big game this Sunday...
...Peter Gomes. The church is filled with 1500 cheering freshmen as the Harvard Band plays "Sexy and 17." Best man Hank Moses, dean of freshmen, says, "It kinda makes you nostalgic for, uh, college, doesn't it?" The groom says, "This is the happiest day in my life--except for the day I got into the B-School...
...joke on Fleet Street that the owners of Britain's newspapers may come and go but it is the unions that run the show. And a costly show it is. Fleet Street has been plagued for years by strikes, late press runs and overstaffing. Except for the Sun, a screeching Rupert Murdoch tabloid, most London papers are either losing money or making minuscule profits...
...approval of the Commission. The cautious mobster, whose sister had been married to the late Crime Chief Carlo Gambino, was reviled by his fellow dons. They mocked him as a dainty executive who had served only one short jail sentence (for armed robbery) and had never bloodied his hands except when he trained as a butcher in his youth. They also suspected that Castellano had been the source of information for the Government's case against the Commission, through an FBI bug planted in his neoclassical Staten Island home. The leaders were probably convinced that they had a greater likelihood...