Word: excepts
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...gets a 19 meal plan except the athletes," says Shalini Bhargava a first-year at Stanford. "Everyone eats 14 meals per week...
Puritanism produced nothing in the way of religious art except some tombstones and a few peculiar carvings, known as spirit stones, meant to repel devils. This wasn't because the Puritans hated art in principle--they didn't, as their portraiture, decorated furniture and other artifacts show--but because they disapproved of images of God and the prophets as "popish," too close to the idolatry they associated with the hated religion of Rome. They were, after all, the direct descendants of the iconoclasts who had destroyed nearly all the medieval art of England. The early New Englanders were people...
...Democratic Minority Leader Tom Daschle and one other Democrat voting for the GOP measure. By the end of the day, TIME?s Karen Tumulty reports, the outlook for the bill that looked virtually veto-proof in the morning was darkening fast. The bill would outlaw the late-term procedure except when a woman is at risk of death and no other medical procedure can be used to terminate the pregnancy. The doctors group agreed to support the measure after Republican leaders incorporated language giving physicians greater protection against prosecution when they decide a late-term abortion is medically necessary...
Such was life with father, 1993-96. "In the family sense," he says, "I was fulfilled and happy, living the life of Chester A. Riley." But half of him was missing--his professional life on the sound stage. "I didn't have my eye in a viewfinder, except the one little High-8 video camera I used to take home movies of my kids," he recalls. "In those three years I probably told more stories at my kids' bedtime than I did to the public in my entire career. Then later I'd ask myself, 'Is there the germ...
...created a shtetl on a sound stage to remind his mother of her father's Russian roots. "They had live chickens and goats," she says, "and dancers and lots of vodka." Spielberg unabashedly adores his mother. "There's no way for me to be closer to her," he testifies, "except to live inside her. Which I've already done...