Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changing the general nature of theuniversity but not the specific nature," Jacksonsays. "It makes everything happen a little bitfaster and it breaks down some traditional statusbarriers, but the universities of today andtomorrow look remarkably like the universities ofyesterday except that people are doing things withnew tools...
...think this was so bad in the beginning, except that Cabot invariably locked its doors. It has, however, turned out to be the crowning insult added to an ever-increasing list of discomforts...
...much about that," she says,"except to figure out who's hurting and dowhatever we can to stop the hurt and restore thatstudent's educational environment...
...Several of the aforementioned commentators designate "RB" a direct descendant of the much-beloved classic "St. Elmo's Fire," except they find it much more enjoyable and sophisticated. They're wrong on two counts. "Reality Bites" is not like "St. Elmo's Fire," but rather more along the lines of John Hughes movies like "The Breakfast Club." Except that Winona's lip-biting has replaced Molly's and Winona, judging from her flirtations with the Academy Awards, seems to be going place Molly never got to. Moreover, "St. Elmo's Fire" had exciting twists in its love plots, while...
Although I managed to branch out a little in my sophomore and junior years, I have never felt like l've come face-to-face at Harvard with anything that could remotely be considered the Other, except for the Society for Creative Anachronism. So I recently looked at myself in the mirror and said "Mike. It's time to broaden your horizons." I decided that I had to spend the last few months of my educational career drowning myself in the vast river that is Harvard's diversity, hoping, like Marlow, Ahab and Arnold before me, to transform myself...