Word: excepts
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...July 12, 1995, Dutch members of the U.N. Protection Force in Srebrenicia coldly watched the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. The U.N. "Protection Force," much like the Holy Roman Empire in the old joke, is neither much of a force nor does it protect anybody except for itself. The Dutch "soldiers" in Srebrenicia watched men, women and children be rounded up, listened to the shots ring out and even watched as Serbs put bullets through the heads of civilians. Cpl. Hans Berkers blithely proclaimed, "I don't feel guilty. It wasn...
Bosnia's cease-fire now appears to be in effect everywhere except in the Sanski Most area of northwestern Bosnia. "U.N. officials say the town itself was quiet but fierce fighting could be heard to the east and north, indicating that the Muslim and Croat allies may be trying to capture Prijedor, about 20 miles to the north," reports Alexandra Stiglmayer from Sarajevo. "Prijedor is of major symbolic value to the Muslims because in 1992, Serbs brutally expelled the Muslim population from there, committing some of the worst massacres of the Bosnian war." The area is also of strategic value...
...next step is to defeat a good Ivy League school, as in Yale this Saturday. Not only are the Bulldogs more skilled (they even defeated preseason favorite and bitter Harvard rival Brown) than anyone Harvard has played except maybe Cornell and Colgate, but the intensity level for that game is certainly much higher than what yesterday's match showed...
...Currier House except Gilbert is designated non-smoking. Non-smokers who draw a low number in the housing lottery are automatically placed into towers other than Gilbert...
...have been detained, often without formal charges. A State High Security Court, whose legal foundation is the revolutionary code that the Palestine Liberation Organization adopted in Lebanon in 1979, has tried at least two dozen Palestinians and handed down harsh sentences. "There's been no improvement in human rights--except for the decline in violence toward Palestinians due to the Israeli army's withdrawal," says activist Raji Surani, who was held for 18 hours last February after he criticized the security tribunal...