Word: excepts
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...money. The UC was ecstatic to work with discount textbook retailer CrimsonReading.org to catalogue hundreds of texts for spring semester courses, and didn’t flinch at setting up its new “Teaching Hotline” last month. Neither of these initiatives cost the UC anything, except its members’ time. But when it comes to a buy-back program for PRS clickers, or $1,700 for daily newspapers, the UC comes up empty. With a $400,000 budget, that kind of avarice is uncalled-for, particularly when the UC only has that money...
That was then. On March 9, a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae, called 300, will hit theaters. It was made by a young director, stars nobody in particular, and it looks like nothing you've ever seen. Very little in 300 is real except the actors. Sets, locations, armies, blood--they're all computer generated. It's beautiful, and it might well be the future of filmmaking. But should...
Also perfectly normal. Eccentricity can play as badly on the campaign trail as vice. If Obama has any weird habits along with his unhealthy one, now is the time to chuck them. The ideal candidate in the age of no offense might be the abstemious Mitt Romney--except that his Mormon faith, even though it is 177 years old and made in America, puzzles Evangelicals and liberals...
...remain at Oxford for the full three years of Rhodes financial support (rather than one or two) than at any time in our hundred-year plus history. (That stipend is, by the way, still extremely generous by any international comparison, and more than adequate to cover all annual expenses except for those who travel the world extensively during vacations...
...Accelyne Williams, a 75-year-old retired minister in Boston: Died of a heart attack after a SWAT team broke into his house and chased him. As a police source subsequently told the Boston Herald, "Everything was done right, except it was the wrong apartment." Oops...