Word: excepts
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...course there is no special merit in things like chain restaurants and local government, except that they are part of the fabric that binds Americans together. That should be enough to endear them to us. If not, what does a Harvard graduate working on Wall Street have in common with the schoolteachers and cops whose retirement funds she manages...
...Tech murderer has frustrated our demand for a motive by taking his own life: “Demand me nothing; what you know, you know; from this time forth I will never speak a word.” What we know from yesterday’s massacre is nothing, except the brute, inscrutable fact that evil exists in the world...
...It’s all pretty exciting, except for the fact that, here at Harvard, we’re dealing with our own bit of thrilling news. No, Tommy Amaker has never sampled a Jackson 5 song, has never had his own TV show on Nickelodeon, and his dad never made ‘em say uhh, but he did win an NIT title...
...Pretty amazing, huh? But the story isn't the strangest thing about Angelitos Negros. The casting is. Except for Monterrey, all the actors playing African or mixed-race characters were white. The movie is a parable of race hatred and racial understanding, done in blackface. As such, and because it is played with such ferocious conviction, the film is a not-to-be-missed one-of-a-kind...
...José Masso, the announcer and producer of “¡Con Salsa!” a Latin music show on WBUR, opened the second half of the performance with a tribute to Palmieri. After the intermission, every piece Palmieri played was his own original composition, except for “Jazz Impromptu” which was composed by Lynch...