Word: barriere
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...scale model of the Statue of Liberty evoked memories of Tiananmen Square. A mock barrier, dubbed the Wall of Colonialism, was battered down as demonstrators cheered. It might have been an anti-Soviet prop at an independence rally in Lithuania. Instead, this was in the city of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico, and the 125,000 yellow-clad marchers were not calling for the island's freedom but to join the U.S. as the 51st state...
...commonwealth is the barrier, the wall," Romero-Barcelo said. "As the Berlin Wall prevented East Germany from achieving democracy, the commonwealth is the invisible wall preventing equality...
With the recent proposal by the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) to allow undergraduates to live in co-ed rooming groups, the College has the opportunity to break down the last remaining artificial barrier between its men and women...
...that barrier must tumble if Harvard is to live up to its policy of treating all students as equal and free-thinking individuals. Just as the Faculty recently expressed concern about denying Harvard students free speech rights guaranteed to the public, we all should bemoan campus living restrictions that would be considered ridiculous in the real world...
That number could soon soar even higher. In the past, street heroin was 6% to 10% pure and an addict had to take it intravenously to get high. Many cocaine users are unwilling to break through the "needle barrier" and inject themselves, in part out of fear of being infected with AIDS from a shared needle. But for the past several years, less diluted heroin from Southeast Asia that can be smoked has been widely available on the streets of New York, Boston and other cities. At $10 a 0.05-gram bag, the so-called China White is cheap enough...