Word: excepts
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...recent Oscar-winning weepies are descendants of the domestic melodramas of the '30s and '40s, with Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo cast as a strong-willed woman censured by a straitlaced society. In the past 20 years, when women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...
...thought that we could do this except us, and I’m extremely proud of what our team was able to accomplish,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said after the game. “And it means as much for the Ivy League as it does for Harvard. Our League has had some great athletes and our top team has always been competitive in the NCAAs...
...compete with a man who was working the crowd in a dolphin costume and a T-shirt identifying him as "Flip Romney: Just another flip flopper from Massachusetts." Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani barely mentioned the social issues on which he parts ways with conservatives, except to joke, "I don't agree with myself on everything." And the only memorable sound bite of the whole affair came from right-wing telepundit Ann Coulter, whose idea of an ideological rallying cry was to declare Democratic hopeful John Edwards a "faggot." The condemnation that followed, in which at least seven newspapers...
...These are gloomy and uncertain days for conservatives, who - except for the eight-year Clinton interregnum - have dominated political power and thought in this country since Reagan rode in from the West. Their tradition goes back even further, to Founding Fathers who believed that people should do things for themselves and who shook off a monarchy in their conviction that Big Government is more to be feared than encouraged. The Boston Tea Party, as Reagan used to point out, was an antitax initiative...
...resolution also urges, but does not require, U.N. member nations to refrain from giving financial assistance to Iran except for humanitarian and development purposes, and bans Iranian exports of conventional arms. U.S. officials hope to use this provision to add the force of international law to its efforts to prevent Iran from smuggling arms to its allies elsewhere, particularly in Iraq, where the U.S. charges Tehran has been arming Shi'ite militias...