Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when proudly declaring "I go to Harvard" is an asset, but more often than not, especially at home, it causes raised eyebrows, quick judgments, and the mocking "Ha-vaad" accent. I don't think my own mother has ever voluntarily told anyone in Baltimore where I go to college, except to say, "She goes to school in Boston." Admittedly, I've fallen prey to using this line more than a couple times over my years here, but I had excused it as only a little white lie. Lately, though, I'm wondering how true that statement really...
...although nothing personally nasty. His numbers, which had been sliding, have stabilized. Weld, after huffing and puffing his way through a 5-K race in Quincy, was overheard telling a supporter as he chugged a bottle of Power-Ade, "It's a dead heat. And that's pretty disconcerting." Except to lovers of political suspense...
...Except for a Dixie Cup-esque cut (I Do), the Grace of My Heart songs aren't primarily parodies; they're just good music. The pearl is God Give Me Strength, by Bacharach and Elvis Costello. Broody and complex, it suggests a tune Bacharach might have given Dionne Warwick to sing in an uptown nightclub at 3 a.m. "Burt consciously breaks rules with bar lines," says Costello. "He's breaking the meter, but it still feels natural. And he expresses feeling so much better than the trumped-up romantic ballads of today, where the emotions seem to have come...
...loss to Princeton sure didn't help Cornell (3-3, 0-1), except for the fact that the Big Red got that game...
Cities such as Charlottesville, Chapel Hill, and Athens, Ga. have only their presective college football teams as athletic torchbearers--if every major college and professional sports team was eliminated except for Harvard, Memorial Drive would have to be closed off every Saturday to accommodate the crowds...