Word: excepts
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...friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed--and of course she reassured the terrified footman he had done nothing wrong. Once when she was on a walkabout in Scotland, someone said to her, "You look just like the Queen!" She replied, "How reassuring...
...have dropped out are, for the most part, struggling. A couple of them got their GED and are working in factories, but others are shuffling through menial jobs--one works at the car wash, another is washing dishes. A few, says Shawn, aren't doing much of anything except playing video games at their parents' houses. But Shawn says he is serious about not becoming a part of their dropout nation. "I've already went and put 12 years into this thing," he says. "There's no use throwing it all away...
...where the NO VACANCY sign has been up all season. The off-Broadway musical Grey Gardens--based on the 1975 film documentary about two nutty relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and featuring a Tony-worthy performance by Christine Ebersole--might have been the best Broadway musical of the season. Except that it can't move to Broadway, because all the theaters are filled...
...Field. It was the eighth consecutive time Cornell (7-1, 2-1 Ivy) had beaten Harvard, putting the Big Red back on track for a repeat conference title after its first loss of the season last week. “They’re consistently a good shooting team, except for last week against Penn,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said. “They had an awful lot of possessions and we didn’t pick up the ball, we didn’t clear the ball efficiently, and we didn’t look...
...collapse. He was to have an operation the next day. I was supposed to be acting Prime Minister for three hours while he had the operation. He asked me to meet with him. I remember joking with him and saying, ?I'm not going to make any decision tomorrow except changing all your staff.? At the end of the meeting I stood up and said ?Arik, this country needs you. Stay well. Come back. I am looking forward to hearing your voice on the phone tomorrow saying ?Ehud I relieve you of your responsibilities. I'm back in town.'? Then...