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...Except they are—and the most standard of their kind, at that. Everything they hate about guitar rock, its stagnation, reliance on overused cliches and reluctance to invent, is all prevalent in their music. If Stumpf really does like R. Kelly and Jay-Z and Motown as much as he claims, then this much should be obvious...
...expect nothing less than perfection, really,” McDaniel said. “We wouldn’t be happy with anything else other than the same. Except, maybe, victory by a larger margin—it would be a terrible misfortune to have junior year be our best...
...seemed like a normal college campus—with rowdy students and the floor-shaking bass of live pop music. In an exciting break from the mundane, some of the University’s most beloved professors even moshed with the best of them. All this really did happen. Except Outkast never actually came to Harvard. And nobody put down their coursepacks. And no undergraduates went across the River. Indeed, Harvard has not had a proper concert, with a well-known band and a loud, exciting atmosphere, in over two years—not since Dispatch played at Sanders Theatre...
...religious right who peddle such alarmist lies would have you believe that if marriage were open to homosexual unions, scores of men across America would divorce their wives—and vice versa. The Bush administration’s proclamation is an embarrassing piece of partisan rhetoric, demonstrating nothing except that Bush’s marriage to the extreme right is stronger than ever...
...stages of the bread preparation.” In addition, she says, “You also learn about the different parts of the oven. It’s like you learn about the different parts of your computer, you know, like where the on button is, except with a brick wood-heated oven it’s a little more complicated than just pushing the power button...