Word: excepts
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...short, yes, we did nothing except get our foot in the door. That was a huge first step, but now we must make good on our ability to make America more tolerant and its policies more sensible. After round after round of defeat, it’s tempting for Democrats to consider an electoral victory their ultimate achievement. Instead, it is a means to an end. Like it or not, there is more hard work on the horizon, and President Obama will need all the help he can get. Nathaniel S. Rakich ’10, a Crimson editorial writer...
...friendly. And so, instead of a photo, Porush is represented on posters by a cartoon figure of a smiling rabbi. It does little to warm the hearts of non-haredim, however. Porush recently told his followers, "In another 10 years, there won't be a single secular mayor anywhere except in some rundown village." That is a day that many ordinary Israelis in Tel Aviv and elsewhere would dread. Already, droves of secular Jerusalemites are leaving the city, stifled by its increasing religiosity, and a Porush victory would increase the exodus, his critics...
...Directly or indirectly," says Carina Tertsakian, Congo team leader for Global Witness, "everyone involved in this conflict is benefitting from the trade in these resources except the Congolese people who are the victims of the war." The mining conglomerates have to come under political pressure, she argues. "They aren't likely to stop what they are doing overnight because of an attack of conscience." But choking off this flow of funds is not just about putting pressure on multinational corporations but also about forcing governments in the area, through firm diplomacy and tight financial screws, to uphold protocols and peace...
...less lifted - did not sour Rushdie from his conviction that religion is necessary to writers, if only because it provides the only available language on certain topics. "I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words," he said. "For instance, 'soul." I don't believe in an afterlife or heaven or hell, yet there isn't a secular word for that feeling that we are not only flesh and blood. Whether you're religious or not you may find yourself obliged to use language shaped...
...think Culbreath will run the Quakers out of Jersey the way the Puritans ran them out of Massachusetts, except without the corporal punishment and book burning. Gotta love our roots, eh Harvard...