Word: excepts
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...arisen concerning the diplomas of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates. Currently, the diplomas male undergraduates receive are signed by the University president, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Dean of Harvard College and their house masters; the diplomas women receive are signed by the same people except Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis' 68 in whose place is the signature of Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson...
...first 12 years of my life, I rarely had to "deal" with my hair except getting it cut and occasionally combing it. I lived in the predominantly black and Latino Mt. Pleasant area of Washington, D.C., and attended basically a black elementary school. We did not see anything strange about our hair. But, in 1989, the year the Berlin wall came crashing down, so did my world of stress-free hair existence when I enrolled in the predominantly white Sidwell Friends School...
...many, the most painful aspect of television deprivation is the cultural ignorance it produces. "When I was younger, it was traumatizing," laments Bradley-Moore. "It so mattered. Every first grader had the latest on `Little House [on the Prairie]' except me. My vocabulary was behind everyone else's, and my teachers wondered if it was because I never watched TV. It made me feel weird; the last thing you want in first grade is to feel weird." An anonymous (afraid of being stigmatized?) Lowell House senior concurs. "When I was a little kid, [not watching television] was hard because that...
...scorn and fear. Yet contrary to popular belief, grad students are not actually evil. It's just that they do the reserve reading. If you look at a syllabus from a graduate-level seminar, you may be astonished to learn that most of then assign no tangible work whatsoever except for a final exam or other project due at the end of the term. Lo, take heed, ye foolish undergraduates, and learn ye the Ways of the 200-Level Course. You see, in graduate school, they no longer have exams and papers scattered throughout the course to make sure that...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand: Residents of New Zealand's largest city are living a '70s post-apocalypse movie plot line, with no electricity for the past five days. Auckland's office towers and stores are dark and empty, except for police patrolling against looters, after all four power cables to the city center failed last Friday. Authorities have not yet been able to determine the cause of the outage, which has cost businesses tens of millions of dollars. Health officials are warning against the consumption of food that has begun to rot in the city's refrigerators, and with full power...