Word: excepts
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...past decade Taiwan has been passionately pursuing a so-called "pragmatic diplomacy," which so far has achieved little effects except in a few small countries in Latin America and West Africa. Tens of millions of dollars flow out of the lonely island every year for almost nothing. The only real success came after Taiwan half-bribed the U.S. Congress and President Clinton into granting President Lee an opportunity to deliver a moving speech at Cornell University, which, however, has turned out to be a bigger trouble for Taiwan than either. Taiwan or the United States would expect. And just like...
Oser said that "the effect on Harvard will be minimal because there is basically no linkage except for a pretty small group of students who have been involved with projects like ACT, Summerbridge, and City Year...
...almost forgot, for those who love hikes, there is yet a fifth stairmasters located above the gym. Usually, just as you reach your last step and you're so excited just to finally get there, someone else has just gotten on. Now, you have nothing to do except think about how by now you probably missed your turn on the ones downstairs...
With Farrakhan in charge of the African-American agenda, there will be no more King-like integration efforts, no more mushy sentiments like Black and White kids holding hands. Farrakhan & Co, are separatist radicals who believe that there is no justice in America, except for that disbursed by O.J.'s acquittal. Conrad Muhammed declared to the Los Angeles Times, referring to the infamous verdict, "It's a justice system that for a change has worked. The jury believed that that racist character (Fuhrman) laid that evidence." Yet after boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of rape some years ago, Muhammed told...
...ADMIT THAT I WATCHED AS MUCH OF the O.J. Simpson trial as humanly possible (I'd guess I caught about a third of the 685 hours carried on COURT TV). Not only that, I've survived to tell the tale. I'm perfectly fine, no ill side effects whatsoever--except for this one peculiar thing that keeps happening whenever I contemplate telling a white lie or giving rein to a less than charitable impulse. Not that I do this very often, of course. But when I do, I now find myself subjected to involuntary cross-examination by a teeny little...