Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...points of the Council's proposed "solution" is to have "upperclassmen...attend all dorm proctor meetings to answer freshmen's questions." The advice and experience of upperclassmen are valuable resources for freshmen, but there is not reason to think that undergraduates can give better advice about any concentration except their own. The advising system here is supposed to foster independent thinking, encouraged by concerned guidance. The College hires older people as proctors and advisers for a reason: their experience makes them better qualified to be a student's first source of counsel...
...became clear that the group's leader was setting a pace that would be tough for anyone to follow. Off the Wall, which came out during the record-biz doldrums, sold 8 million copies worldwide and fielded four Top Ten hits. Those are impressive numbers by any standard, except the one that Jackson has just set with Thriller. "Michael's doing this tour to help his family," according to King. "I feel this will be the last tour that Michael will do with them." Lest he sound too much like the last flower child to bloom, we have Attorney Branca...
...office is unimpressive: regulation furniture, except for a rectangular brown marble desk that sits like a sarcophagus on a chrome stand. There is a glass-and-metal étagère with a stereo and records. An ink sketch of a lion's face with blue eyes hangs on the wall, and there is a small bronze lion on the desk. Jackson tells me he is a Leo. A picture of Michael onstage in a silvery costume hangs above a small table along with two ivory elephant tusks carved into totems. Jackson is nervous, wary. He talks very gently...
...Crimson play was not without bright spots. The aquawomen played stingy defense all day, and except for problems defending against Brown drivers, were very aggressive in their own end. And on offense, the key, too was aggressive attacking...
...really make a comment except that yes, there was a robbery. "Peter A. Rattigan, the assistant treasurer of the branch across the street from Harvard Yard, said yesterday...