Word: excepting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Finally, there's the press corps: the same hard-nosed wiseacres that always cut up in class, except these days they're a little smellier. And just like in high school I find myself in this clique whether I want to be or not. It's sometimes hard not to get lost in the excitement of how spiffy the hometown looks and how well the local talent is doing and assess it all as a cool outsider. At the opening ceremonies, I waved my blinking bracelet around like a goofball until I realized I was one of about six people...
Miller started out well in the preseason. "Democrats and Republicans. Now there's a bunch of 4 and 12 teams," he chortled. But since then it seems like Miller has been pulling his punches. In the season opener Sept. 4 he was silent for most of the game except halftime, when he was eating Skittles during his analysis. In the broadcasts since, Miller has become even more timid, as columnists have pronounced the comedian-as-football announcer experiment a failure...
...Still, the decision to prosecute went all the way to the White House Situation Room - except it was never really discussed once it got there. According to two participants in the two-hour Dec. 4 session, chaired by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and attended by more than a dozen officials, the conversation was not so much about whether to go forward as about just how damaging it would be to discuss the loss of the crown jewels in court. "We didn't know any other way [to find out what happened to the tapes]," says a participant. "The whole...
...couple of interesting moments that might be memorable and even historic. Like the Oscars, the ceremony can drag on and on: parading 10,000 athletes from 199 countries, Albania through Zimbabwe, makes for a long evening. And that spectacle can become as tedious as actors thanking their agents, except that the athletes dress more exotically...
...There's a sense that if you go to the Ad Board nothing will come out of it except a long and painful process," she says...