Word: exception
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Recently, there was an article in The Boston Globe about declining applications to all Ivy League schools this year, except for Columbia, which had a significant increase. Columbia's admissions committee thought that one of the reasons for its surge in applications was the success of its football team this year after decades of losing seasons...
Sooner or later, B.U.'s relentless pressure had to tell, and it was lucky for the Eagles that they scored again before the Terriers responded. Reasoner's top-corner snipe at 1:25 of the third had all the trademarks of a game-winner--except that his opposition had no intentions of rolling over and dying...
...local mining interests by swapping federal lands of equal value for those that lie within the monument. Utah Senator Bob Bennett sniffs at this, insisting that there is no land of equal value. Bennett is also unimpressed with Clinton's promise that all the current uses of the region, except mining, would be unchanged by its new status. The Senator wants that pledge written into law. "We'll see how sincere they are," he says...
...Except perhaps literally. Madalyn suffered from chronic heart disease and diabetes and, like many activist atheists, feared that at her demise, religious relatives might commandeer her body and give it a Christian burial (or, as Kerns remembers her putting it, "stick a crucifix up my a__"). Faced with a sudden health crisis, the matriarch could have arranged to die unmolested and given Jon and Robin permission to jump ship. Such a blessing might have been welcome. "Jon told me numerous times that he was pretty fed up with the whole goddam thing," says Via. "If he had the opportunity...
There really isn't much to say about the Dartmouth meet on Wednesday except that the slaughter was over pretty quickly. Wilbur mentioned that it was hard for the team to maximize its intensity level because it felt very confident in a victory--a luxuary few teams enjoy--but its confidence paid off as it belittled the Big Green with an 8-2 pounding...