Word: excepting
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...Crimson 4x400 relay team of Barron, Schutte, sophomore Carrie McGraw, and freshman Amanda Shanklin, finished first with a time of 3:51.81. It was almost the same team that was victorious at the Millrose Games in the Madison Square Garden earlier in the season, except Taylor ran that meet instead of Barron...
...good, in fact, that Bush did more than get by in South Carolina. He trounced McCain by 11 points overall, beating him handily among nearly all age groups, both genders and most income levels--among everyone, in fact, except veterans and new G.O.P-primary voters. South Carolina Republicans rejected McCain's message that "this party has lost its way," voting for Bush almost 3 to 1. The independents and Democrats who made up about 40% of the electorate went to McCain 2 to 1, but there weren't enough of them to keep things close. Exit polls show that a majority...
...Naipaul, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990, is now considered a giant in postcolonial fiction, having won almost every major literary award except the Nobel Prize. Born in Trinidad to West Indian parents in 1932, "Vido," as he is called in the book, was able to secure a prestigious Trinidad government scholarship in 1948, which he used to fund four years of study at Oxford University. Family Letters documents Naipaul's life spanning a period from just before his departure for England, to the critical acclaim following the 1957 publication of Naipaul's first book, The Mystic Masseur...
...doubt I'd believe in the value of pure cinema at all, except that, three or four years ago, I saw a little French film from the 1960s called The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The idea for the film sounds a little strange when I tell it: a love story that's also a French musical and a slice-of-life melodrama in old Hollywood style. I was a little hesitant to make my first "movie love" rave a French film--it just seems so pretentious. But, well, so it's French. So kill me. Of course there is something...
...audience momentum as the night wore on. Apparently the show was especially popular with teenage girls and young women viewers. I could only hope that these women shared my motivations for watching the show; that their confusion and disgust that someone would marry a person they knew nothing about except the size of his stock portfolio prevented them from tearing their eyes away from the screen...