Word: excepts
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...ignore the pressures that come at me every day from the special interests in this state," Barrett says. "I always ask myself before voting whether a normal human being would consider my position sane and sensible or absolutely wacky, except by State House standards...
...files contain materials "that absolutely should not have been available to anyone except under strict conditions," Corlette says...
Traditionally, honors or interdisciplinaryconcentrations require a personal, intensiveinstructional approach, department members say.All of the selective concentrations arehonors-only except for the new EnvironmentalStudies major...
Coyle's narrative follows the Kikuyus, an endearing collection of woofers, goofers, complainers, excusemakers, big talkers, strike-out artists and wavers at fly balls. They are a fairly normal group of eight-to-12-year-olds, except for a higher than average incidence of male relatives dead or in jail, and except for their conversation. After one girl gangster shoots at another but misses, a gentle 10-year-old Kikuyu says, "I think I heard the bullet. It go fooooosh, right past my head." His buddy scoffs, "What, you never seen nobody do no shootin' before? Man, I seen that...
...crucial word for Brooks, in I'll Do Anything and his other work, is decency; it defines the goal and the pain of most of those smart, middle-class folks he writes about from the inside. "Every character is struggling toward decency," says Brooks, "except for Matt, who is struggling to stay decent. That's a hard road for a lot of us in Hollywood. And not just out here, I would imagine. This is a tough time to be absolutely certain about moral truths. We have to be careful about what makes us feel good about ourselves. Saying 'Good...