Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business School will implement a unique admissions policy next year that will eliminate deferred admissions for all students except minorities...
...like Christmas morning. Artifacts were everywhere. On every piece of furniture and covering the floor--except for narrow pathways--under beds, in every nook and cranny, and closets.... I especially remember one large walk-in closet... which was filled to the height of 3 or 4 feet with a vast tangle of metal: dozens of kettles, musket barrels, wire, every conceivable type of iron artifact...
...Earl Weaver-like antics during the game indicated that he was equally upset. Pike was, however, pleased with the play of Dave Fasi, Adam Button, Steve Munatones, and goalie Brian Graham. He thought the game, for all its distractions, was no real indication of the teams' relative strengths, except that Brown showed that it does have more depth than the Crimson. He added, "After we took a shot their guards would break for our goal and if the shot was blocked they would be in great position. Twice on defensive counter, attacks we picked up the totally wrong man. Refs...
Cornell has scored on its first possession of the day, and now Jim Villanueva had just booted a 39-yard field goal, giving Harvard three points on its final possession of the day. In between, each team had blown one sterling shot at a touchdown. Very simple, except for the yellow flag resting on Schoelkopf Field's artificial turf...
...Perhaps not within a nation, where the law presumably does the accounting among individuals: the law pronounces judgment to mark an end to the cycle of vengeance that would otherwise follow a crime. But between nations there is no comparable agency to prevent historical wounds from festering endlessly. Nothing, except the apology. In an almost miraculous way, it seems capable of binding the wounds. Compare the legacies of the Holocaust and the Armenian massacres of 1915. The postwar German government accepted responsibility for the nation's actions, and offered acknowledgment and reparations to the survivors. The Nazi crime...