Word: beyond
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...hour and typically lack union membership. They work two or three jobs, and as many as 80 hours a week. They often have to choose between seeing their children and providing for them. At least 90 percent of these workers receive no benefits whatsoever. Decent health care is beyond their reach, and we know of workers who have died from lack of medical treatment...
...foundation's fiery former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building democratic and capitalist bridges there in preparation for his demise. Exile leaders like Ramon Saul Sanchez, who once headed a clandestine paramilitary group that trained for a possible invasion of Cuba, say that kind of dialoguista thinking "just props up a dictator." Freyre counters that the demagogic...
Some students develop relationships with proctors or non-resident advisers that are of enormous value to them throughout their Harvard years and beyond. Others tell tragic tales of advisers who become part of their problems rather than helping solve them. Nearly everyone has a story to tell...
...such beautiful, stark imagery that we cannot help but watch in horrified awe. Although it is Alexander's children who are murdered in Kennedy's play, it is Alexander herself that the American educational system tries to kill though an unnameable suffocation. And lest we think America has moved beyond such quietly murderous systems of racism, at least in its highest and most enlightened institutions, Stern places prominently in the very center of the set a clock that tells the correct time as the performance progresses. The real violence in Kennedy's play is as present...
...this point we are supposed to be angry at the government for blaming Childers. But we've seen what happened in Yemen-Childers is alt least 90 percent to blame-whether or not he should be made a scapegoat is beyond the point. As his lawyer Childers chooses Col. Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones '69), a close friend whose life he saved in Vietnam. Hodges is a recovering alcoholic who has just retired-he was never a very good lawyer, but he feels that he owes it to his friend to defend...