Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school does what it can to insulate its students. Two years ago, New Trier, formerly an open campus, started keeping its 3,000 students on school grounds all day, except for about 300 juniors and seniors whose parents give permission for them to leave. But even a wealthy, concerned alma mater like New Trier can't fill the shoes of parents who either don't care that their kids are smoking or fail at the task of stopping them. "How could a school eradicate it?" asks New Trier's superintendent, Henry S. Bangser. "Schools have a responsibility to address...
...parents, spouses, siblings and children. Then something happened to Riemann's empire. His mortuaries still bore the name Riemann, and his sons Mike and David still managed the business. Hearses came and went trailing the usual plumes of sorrow. Outwardly, in fact, nothing seemed to have changed at all, except the Riemanns' announcement that they had taken on a new "partner," the Loewen Group, a "death-care" corporation based just outside Vancouver, Canada...
Hussain described the show, a brainchild of MTV staff members Michael Dugan and Chris Kreski, as "MTV-style Jeopardy, except the host is like Dennis Miller on Valium and there is a huge brain sitting in the middle of the studio...
...will be Disney's new 101 Dalmatians, which hits theaters this week. The movie has a more traditional, if no less disheartening, provenance: it is a blowsy John Hughes-produced remake of the gently witty 1961 Disney cartoon--a live-action remake that would have no reason to exist except that Disney knows the sight of 99 Dalmatian puppies will be irresistible to children and licensees alike. That would seem to be borne out by the fact that more than 130 companies are involved in various Dalmatians products and promotions...
Your assessment of the Jewell case shows the extraordinary one-sidedness of the media. It seems everyone involved--except the press--was guilty of poor judgment, possible rights violations, skulduggery and potential libel. The media use the First Amendment as a shield for their lack of ethics, their use of yellow journalism and their reporting of rumors with reckless disregard for the damage caused to the people involved. ROBERT V. RIGHTER JR. St. Louis, Missouri...