Word: excepts
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...well and good -- except the document dodges the issue of how to finance such a plan or even how to estimate what it may cost. This was a curious oversight inasmuch as the same report specifically targets a rich source of funds: the billions of dollars in mortgage-interest tax deductions granted to the wealthiest one-fifth of American families...
...lock for Jansen this time. You could take it to the bank. Except by now everyone knew that speed skaters can and do go down. That has been Dan's singular contribution to the common body of knowledge about his discipline. On Monday, 300 m into the race of his life, it began to happen again. Out went Jansen's hand to steady himself, the friction of it scraping along the ice probably enough to cause the thirty-five hundreths of a second's difference between gold and Jansen's eighth-place finish. "You lose so much momentum...
...hate him, the inescapable fact is that he touches a nerve among blacks as almost no one else can. A TIME/CNN poll of 504 African Americans by Yankelovich Partners last week found 73% of those surveyed were familiar with him -- more than with any other black political figure except Jesse Jackson and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas -- and two-thirds of those familiar with Farrakhan viewed him favorably. Some 62% of those familiar with him said he was good for the black community; 63% said he speaks the truth; and 67% said he is an effective leader. More than half...
...Says Mustafa Malik, director of research of the American Muslim Council: "To be a Muslim, you have to believe that there is only one God and Muhammad is his last Prophet. The Nation of Islam people believe that Elijah Muhammad is the last Prophet. There is nothing in common except that we call ourselves Muslims and they call themselves Muslims." The Nation of Islam is not alone. Several of the 17 or more American black Muslim sects -- including one in Atlanta run by the '60s civil rights radical formerly known as H. Rap Brown -- depart from orthodoxy...
Sure enough, within a week the effects of the introductions had worn off. Few of us acknowledged each other in class except by pointing fingers and I Agree-with-What-he-said-she-saids. Outside of class there was, well nothing...