Word: exception
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...Dole announced that he would resign on or before June 11, "and I will then stand before you without office or authority, a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man." He said he would do it his way, the hard way. "For little has come to me except in the hard way, which is good because we have a hard task ahead...
There is not, nor has there ever been, any attempt by anyone at the CMES to do anything to Mr. Afrasiabi except to deny him continuing affiliation after he misrepresented his Harvard affiliation in print. If Mr. Afrasiabi really intends to carry out his longtime threats of legal action against the Center or any of its members, we would welcome that as an opportunity to document his conduct and the baselessness of his charges. We deplore his ongoing harassment of Mr. Alavi, who has done absolutely nothing to merit this. --William A. Graham, Professor of the History of Religion...
...only policy. "Everybody's lying in this city," says Nastase, who clearly isn't going to flatter his way into the job. "I want to be the first Romanian who didn't lie." Nastase, a little chubbier and wrinklier than when he won every Grand Slam title except Wimbledon, but with the same swinging '70s hairstyle, got the notion to run after a friend persuaded him to join the ruling Social Democracy Party last September. "In the beginning it was a joke," he told Time Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. But now Nastase is addressing the campaign with...
...audience, never fit in with Fox's efforts to attract a young crowd with shows like The Simpsons and Melrose Place. "When I was there," says David Corvo, yet another ex-CBS executive who spent some time at Fox, "my strong feeling was that virtually nobody in the company except Murdoch was interested in supporting the development of a news division beyond what was needed to service affiliate newscasts...
...this sort of elegiac kids' film, sex is verboten--except in the relationship of the boy and his dolphin, silhouetted like lovers against the setting sun. Sandy has one underwater swimming-and-petting scene with Flipper that may be the most sensuous movie aquacade since Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins went skinny-dipping in The Blue Lagoon. Yet for all the cornography, Flipper has its tugs and charms. This modest movie is about not much more than teaching kids to care for animals and, occasionally, for grownups...