Word: exception
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...think your socioeconomic background makes much of a difference, except maybe people of lesser means may not be able to go out to Boston or go to more expensive Eurotype clubs," Powe says...
Nasrallah: This war was waged for the electoral purposes of [Prime Minister Shimon] Peres. He thought if it happened before the election, it would save him. Experience has shown very clearly that there is no difference between Peres and [Likud's Benjamin] Netanyahu--except that Peres lies more than Netanyahu. Most of the wars launched against Lebanon and Arabs were launched by Labor governments...
...Taking advantage of line-drawing," Kaufman says that, except for "soft drugs like alcohol and marijuana,...drug use is physically and mentally harmful." While I applaud Kaufman for realizing that on the spectrum of safe to dangerous drugs, no line can be drawn that puts marijuana on the more dangerous side than alcohol, his taxonomy between hard and soft drugs is too coarse. Although there is substantial evidence that chronic cocaine and crack use cause mental damage (but Blankenship and David were not in possession of these drugs), no reputable studies have ever shown marijuana, mushrooms and LSD to have...
Drug use "immediately causes individuals to commit crime, as they disregard our rationally imposed legal norms." What crimes do drug users immediately commit, except for the crime of using drugs? Perhaps Kaufman is referring to statistics that 70 percent of violent crimes are committed by people on drugs. This is a powerful statistic, but one should also note that in the majority of these violent, drug-induced crimes, alcohol was the only drug. And the four drugs the students are charged with are not known to contribute in any way to violent behavior (many would contend they suppress violent behavior...
...Buchanan actually talks some sense when he refuses to consider exceptions in the cases of rape or incest. If the fetus is a human life, then its survival trumps everything else, except the life of the mother. The circumstances under which it was conceived are irrelevant. As Buchanan's campaign manager was quoted a few days ago in The New York Times, "You wouldn't say that you could kill a 1-year-old child because it was conceived in a rape...