Word: excepts
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...whiff of saltpeter hangs over “When the War Came,” The Decemberists’ most overtly political song. They bring out their heavy guitars and sound almost like a mainstream rock band—except for lyrics like “We made our huts of avaram / We’d not betray the sole Ledum...
...result, there’s a lot of boring filler. We hear again and again that work sucks, school is boring, and Reagan was a fascist. It’s actually kind of like listening to a Hardcore song, except the music is gone and the words are stammered rather than yelled...
...reasonable dialogue.Furthermore, its violent attacks on Harvard as an institution are largely unwarranted and alienate the very moderates it should be trying to convince. The University’s policies and views tend to be politically liberal by national standards, yet the Guide presents every faction of the University (except, perhaps, the Guide’s 13 contributors) as stooges of evil capitalist forces. In fact, the campus remains home to a large corps of disillusioned liberals with an identity crisis, for opposing any single liberal cause is enough to be labeled a hard-nosed conservative by much...
...they also seem to be very boring people who don’t show any character growth. At first I took this to be a failing on the author’s part, but upon reflection, Schrefer has accurately depicted the bland personalities of many who want for nothing (except higher SAT scores...
...period when GPAs began to rise. The dean's response is in two parts: 1) The reasoning is flawed; and 2) Even if it weren't flawed, Princeton still has "the responsibility to hold [students] to higher standards." It's unclear where this leaves the student body, except still pissed off about their grades...