Word: excepts
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...you’ve ever told: Of course we’ll stay in touch Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Sorry to interrupt, but I actually don’t care, so... Favorite childhood activity: Playing guns and robbers while visiting home in Nigeria. Except with real guns, real robbers, and corrupt police. Sexiest physical trait: I’m gonna keep it PG here and just keep it moving. Next question. Best part about Harvard: Friday, when you realize it’s the weekend Worst part about Harvard: Sunday, when you review...
Case in point: the Harvard University Police recently reported a 47-fold jump in liquor law violations on campus last year. Such a statistic might have made 2007 an exciting drinking/partying/bail-posting season—except that the number wasn’t true...
...reader looking for nuggets of gossip about America's latest political rock star won't be disappointed. We learn that Sarah shot her first rabbit at age ten; that she shared a room with her two sisters that "was unheated except for a wood stove"; and that one Halloween, she dressed as a pregnant Jane Fonda. But there is also plenty to pore over about Palin as an Alaskan politico, including an analysis of her controversial decision, soon after becoming mayor of Wasilla, to fire all of its incumbent municipal department heads. In fact, the author includes so much about...
...jumping, and singing in the streets.I had been in Egypt for just about two weeks. Having left the friendly confines of Ohiri field, I moved on to cover an away game of sorts; to see where soccer really lives and breaths: in every single other country in the world except for the United States. I’ve never been one for columns that come out admonishing Americans for hating soccer, being so ignorant to this beautiful game, or choosing WWE Monday Night Raw over a good MLS game.Because I love WWE. I know how to do a stone-cold...
...film, though, is unsparing of the Van Damme legend. With the star, now 47, looking puffy and played out, and with so many references to his off-screen philandering and drug use, the movie bears comparison to Mickey Rourke's turn in The Wrestler, also at Toronto. Except that this one is sharper, crueler, way funnier - part parody, part exposé, especially in an eight-minute take of the star in closeup, where Van Damme makes a confession of his personal and career sins, and the tough guy ends up crying. It is the finest, most scab-pulling performance...