Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This past fall in DeKalb, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, the public high school held an assembly. Seems innocuous enough, except that this wasn't any old assembly. It was a "motivational assembly." And it was organized by the school administration with the help of the nearby New Birth Missionary Baptist Church...
...become golden memories, many students (especially first years in the process of blocking), are beginning to see the new system as capricious at best, and unfair at worst. At the same time, however, those already randomized say they've grown very attached to the house chance placed them in. Except for inter-house transfers...
...Since then, an uneasy truce has settled over the Jones campaign. "There's a ceasefire," says Branegan. "Whitehead is not happy about this fund, but he's not going to do anything about it." Except, that is, for unconfirmed reports that Whitehead has turned over copies of those letters to Judge James Henry Michael in Charlottesville, who is investigating President Clinton?s claims that Paula Jones brought her suit for personal profit. If that is true, Whitehead may have taken his ultimate revenge on the Legal Fund -- and shot the Jones case in the foot...
...jury of Vaughn's fans, er, peers, returned with a "not guilty" verdict, allowing Vaughn to hop the next flight to spring training and resume his place as the team's leading slugger. Since he had hit only an empty parked car and didn't do any personal damage, except perhaps to his reputation, most Boston fans would rather forgive Vaughn for his transgression and return him to the batter's box. No harm, no foul (unless the Sox don't make it to the World Series...
...past month, a group of students at Syracuse University unsuccessfully called for the national boycott of Denny's, the fast-food restaurant. They claim that they were mistreated a year ago for being Asian. The local authorities disagree. There does not seem to be any evidence, and no one, except some federal officials, seem to care...