Word: excepts
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...number of pre-law students at Harvard merits only one law firm at the annual career fair. And what of the premeds? There were no hospitals or medical schools. What of those wanting to go to graduate school in the arts and sciences? There were no university representatives except for two dozen study-abroad organizations. Of course, the medical schools and law schools probably figured they didn't need to come to campus; students will come to them. And other organizations likely did not want to spend the money to come to a career fair--money that investment banking...
...most part, Murphy needn't have lost any sleep. Except for a 39-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter, the secondary didn't give up any big plays...
...open to challenge, but its disaffection is real and deep. The third largest county in America, Nye is an immense wedge covering more than 18,000 sq. mi., about the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined, but is occupied by only 20,000 people. Plenty of elbow room--except for the fact that the Federal Government owns 93% of the land. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) controls most of the valleys, the U.S. Forest Service most of the uplands. The Defense Department too claims huge chunks of the county, including the Nevada Test Site, where it detonated hundreds...
...race problem, the Nation of Islam sat on the sidelines while Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers, black and white and of all religions, put their lives on the line. Even today, Jews continue to vote for black candidates more consistently than any ethnic or racial group except blacks themselves. In contrast, it was not until Jesse Jackson's first presidential campaign in 1984, nearly 20 years after the Voting Rights Act emancipated blacks politically, that Farrakhan gave his followers permission to register and vote...
Calls for reform have resounded almost as long as there has been a U.N. Little has been accomplished, except in some cases the creation of additional "coordinating layers" of bureaucracy--which should be no surprise, given the U.N.'s peculiar structure and how it grew. None of the specialized agencies is even formally part of the central U.N., the organs (Security Council, General Assembly, Secretariat) created by the 1945 charter. Most, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), were set up later as separate organizations with their own charters, assemblies and staffs. They are tied into a "U.N. system...