Word: excepts
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Read my pen. Americans admired Bill Clinton's nerve and determination last January when he told Congress he was willing to compromise on every aspect of his proposal except one: universal coverage. "If you send me legislation that does not guarantee every American private health insurance that can never be taken away," he told Congress in January, "you will force me to take this pen, veto the legislation, and we'll come right back here and start all over again...
...tough posturing may have made invasion inexorable. Even though Clinton has yet to make a decision, there is a growing consensus that he has pushed matters to the point where he cannot afford to back down. "There's almost no way out," said former Ambassador to Haiti Ernest Preeg, "except military intervention...
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Stamaty, whose mother and father were both cartoonists, grew up in Elberon, New Jersey, and "always kind of knew I would be an artist and a writer, except when I was 14 and wanted to be a baseball player." That aberration passed, and Stamaty went on to earn a fine-arts degree from Cooper Union in New York City. After illustrating several children's books in the 1970s, he produced comic strips for the Village Voice in New York. In 1981 he started Washingtoon in the Voice and the Washington Post, which eventually syndicated the strip nationally. He has since...
...Normandy-style invasion from the shores of a reluctant Japan; use atomic weapons on Pyongyang, at the cost of countless civilian lives and the peninsula; or simply throw in the towel. Last week Gaskin defended his three- year-old prognostication: "I don't think it's changed much, except at the margins...