Prison officials made one exception on debate day.
The one exception on Wednesday was Yaya Touré.
(There's one exception: on the final song of the album, which runs nine minutes, he sings, "They wanna murder a nigga / Murder me like Selena," comparing himself to the Latin pop star, who was shot to death in 1995).
Michel Lasme is an exception on at least one count.
That is, with one notable exception: on CCTV America's weekend news program produced in Washington by China's state broadcaster, neither man's plight made the headlines.
This year I concentrated, with one delightful exception, on biographies and autobiographies.
However, most of these represent a single locally expanded gene family, with one interesting exception on chromosome 14.
(Meola is the exception on the hair front, and he was notably voted as having one of the 10 best mullets in sports history).
But they're the exception, on Snapchat at least.
Brodeur's graceful comments were an exception on Monday night.
But the Americans made an exception on Friday.
