Word: excepts
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...proof came against Princeton. Harvard was trailing 12-8 when sophomore Mike Giampaolo booted a 21-yard field goal. That's uneventful enough, except that the ball was tipped and still went through...
...might be expected that Al Gore will explain everything when he arrives next week ? except it was Gore himself who played bad cop Tuesday. "We are perfectly prepared to walk away from an agreement that we don't think will work," said the environmentalist Veep. Now that's a poker face...
...Chinese people have been waiting for centuries." Wei seemed confident that he had not seen the last of his homeland. "I certainly plan to go back," he said. "I never planned to leave." In fact, he added, "I'd be willing to return to China under almost any circumstances." Except perhaps one: "No one wants to go back to jail...
...Tuesday, Janet Reno is expected to decline an independent counsel for Gore's White House phone calls ? which means that Gore can show up in Kyoto with nothing to answer for to except greenhouse gases. "The U.S. position is relatively firm; Gore will tell the Europeans that it's better than nothing," says Branegan. "The environment is his issue; if he can bring a deal back home, he can make headlines in a positive light." For the tainted Gore, that is an opportunity not to be missed...
WASHINGTON: The national economic indicators for the July-September quarter are in, and there's enough good news for everyone (except maybe Alan Greenspan). Economic growth, expected to dip below 3 percent, continues to hang tough at 3.3 percent...