Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tape of a private phone call between them. Then came a rugby captain, Will Carling, and then a prominent businessman, Christopher Whalley. Next, Diana was said by the tabloids to have fallen in love with a Pakistani-born heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan, whom she reportedly hoped to marry; except the intensity of public scrutiny may have been too much for Dr. Khan...
Princess Diana's funeral was of this order. Of course it was a spontaneous outburst of grief for a much loved young woman who died too soon and with hideous violence. But if it was also something of a demonstration, it was not necessarily a demonstration of anything except howling grief...
Meanwhile the U.S. was widely criticized for neglecting the area. "Albright was going everywhere else, except to the Middle East," notes Robert Pelletreau, the State Department's Assistant Secretary for the region during Clinton's first term. But she continued to insist she would go only when the chances for progress were high...
...second question (the obverse of the first): Why do masses of men and women feel such intense emotion about the life and death of people who are strangers to them--strangers, that is, except to the extent that masses of people have been deceived by the tabloids into an illusion of intimacy with the famous...
...outlook for the 1997-'98 season again looks promising. With everyone returning except for Majmudar, the Crimson should be tops in the Ivies and also make a strong run in the Eastern Regionals...