Word: excepts
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...died or as he was dying or after he’d gone up, and, Daddy, I didn’t mind the mourning thing, I just don’t think I can keep it up any longer.I bet I would’ve said all that. Except right then Daddy had to say, “It only took a few days of knowing your mother before I was dumb with caring. We weren’t even courting and I was sick for her.”Now I sure as shooting couldn’t tell...
...show and have it run for awhile.”I have to say I admire her dedication to her passion and her commitment to taking the acting leap even after graduating from the pragmatic atmosphere of one of the country’s top schools. No one, except someone who truly loved acting, would ever take the kind of risks Carla Gallo takes when she is on-screen. Whether she is asking to be gagged, sucking Steve Carell’s toe, or baring it all in “Vaginatown,” Carla Gallo is doing...
...High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Human Rights Watch and several other local and international groups have been pushing Sri Lankan authorities for months to open up access. On Jan. 10, the Sri Lankan government instead turned several of the camps into "high-security zones," off limits to everyone except the U.N. and the Red Cross. A recently disclosed proposal to set up "welfare villages" where up to 200,000 IDPs could be kept for as long as three years was condemned by human-rights groups and opposition leaders; but this kind of treatment is a reality...
...Nick Batter ’09 is a mild-mannered college senior, studying history in Dunster and working on his thesis. But by night, actually by night he’s pretty much the same. Except Tuesday nights when he draws cartoons for the Wednesday edition of The Crimson...
...bitter experiences faced by countries like Sri Lanka during the colonial past—often lead such governments to take extreme precautions to ensure no covert foreign force creeps into their internal politics again. This was evident in Sri Lanka when the government ordered all non-governmental organizations except the International Committee of Red Cross to leave rebel-held areas in September 2008. This action was taken after Sri Lankan authorities learned that several NGOs had wittingly or unwittingly given material aid to the Tamil Tigers...