Word: excepts
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...accepted must be able to handle an accelerated program that puts them at the level of first year master’s degree students after three undergraduate years, instead of four. For those first three years of their education, students in the joint program are essentially regular Harvard students, except they join a private instructor’s studio class at the NEC. But other than private music lessons and workshops, they take all of their classes at Harvard. After the third year they have auditions, known as “promotionals,” at the NEC to determine...
...Americans as much as it does to deter potential violent criminals from committing crimes. But punishment should not be tailored to the electorate. Rather it should follow the same moral norms that every citizen of the United States is expected to follow—moral norms that prohibit killing except in self-defense. As Stanley Williams reportedly tried to help the technician deliver his own lethal injection, it can hardly be argued that the state believed Williams to be an imminent danger. With the myriad problems afflicting the current criminal justice system, the death penalty also allows for tragic mistakes...
...bikinis and push-up bras, each week’s FM features a bizarre full-page spread of chronic masturbators and generally unattractive people acting like complete heathen lords and reenacting scenes from Gorillas in the Mist. Sometimes they are making out, which is sort of like pornography except that it tricks your genitals into thinking you have just gone swimming in Maine. Also, the photographs require no consent so they’re like that creepy—voyeur—porn that scary people...
Improv comic, tour guide, former UC Rep, and snake tamer, Sam has little left to accomplish in his life except to be an associate for FM. He already runs a small country, and we hear he invented Facebook/Dormaid. We welcome the young man aboard, and don’t forget, for when you’re old—Teller is Steller...
...semester work with the added stress of exam preparation. You and I, on the other hand, will gracefully finish up our semesters, go home for break, and then return when we’re ready—only to be afforded a two week grace period to do nothing except hang out and study (and let’s face it, if there’s any class that you can’t get adequately prepared for in two weeks, you’re at the wrong school). After we take our exams, we get another vacation of anywhere...