Word: excepts
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Despite the sanctimony of activists, most students see, or implicitly accept, apathy about political issues as a virtue. We have a lifetime for political activism, of which many of us will take full advantage. We have only four years of liberal education (except for the few who study for a Ph.D.). With limited time, students must make a choice, and most students prudently choose their education over activism...
...Friday's performance was downright surreal: the two golden boys of the Third way, Bill and Tony, speaking the same language, practicing a style of politics one had virtually copied from the other, both touting the virtues of a middle class that works hard and plays by the rules. Except that Clinton had somehow got very far out of bounds...
...client is a responsible young woman who speaks the truth but got caught in the web of a complicated government conflict, orchestrated and engineered by people with a political and personal agenda. No one is funding her. No one is standing behind her. No one cares about her except us. And we have to tell the story...
Corals are not the only recorders of climate history. Jay Noller, for example, a geomorphologist from Vanderbilt University, has been studying ancient sediments from Peru's northern desert, which is among the dryest spots on earth--except during El Nino years. Then and only then, torrential rains from a succession of storms compact surface dust into a layer of fine, red soil. From the age of the soils he has examined so far, Noller concludes that the El Nino cycle has been operating for at least 2 million years, and probably much longer...
...Except Colonel Tom Rockwell, her boss on the force. Tom helped Hoolihan dry out, so when his daughter Jennifer is found dead, an apparent suicide, he turns to Hoolihan to help solve the mystery of why such a beautiful young thing would put three bullets in her head. Could this have been murder...