Word: excepts
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...supernova, an exploding star whose violent death was recorded by astronomers in 1987. For millenniums before the blast, Burrows and his colleagues believe, the terminally ill star had been gushing out great volumes of gas, which formed an hourglass-shape "bubble." (The bubble would ordinarily have been spherical, except that the gas around its equator was especially thick and slow-moving and thus stayed relatively close to the supernova.) Then, when the star blew up, the flash of light made the gas glow. Most of the bubble is shining too faintly to be seen at all, but the small central...
...sure about the bad-taste rule as it applies to styles of government, except in the way that it points to a sometimes desirable elegance of leaderly thought, or might remind Americans of a President long ago who designed his own house at Monticello...
...this year the House passed its own gift ban -- to the despair of restaurants and tour operators. A public relations executive who puts on theater and concert galas predicts that such bonfires of the vanities are engendering "a class of monks, who will live without benefit of cultural influence, except for television...
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...that life is unfair. The American people try not to be. Fairness is a kind of American fetish (except where race is concerned). On the other hand, as George Bush discovered and Clinton may yet find, Americans give and take away...