Word: barriere
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...account of baseball’s color barrier, Satch, perhaps the greatest player in the history of the Negro Leagues, didn’t make his major league debut until 1948, when he was already 41 years...
...sending a really clear, strong, and simple message to talented students worldwide that finances should not be a barrier,” Financial Aid Director Sally C. Donahue says...
...have shown that American involvement isn’t improving the situation. A case in point is the 12-foot wall on which the United States military began construction in mid-April. According to original plans, it would stretch three miles through Baghdad, separating Sunni and Shiite areas. The barrier was conceived as part of a new strategy to address sectarian violence through physical separation but has largely backfired, viewed by many Sunni Iraqis as discriminatory and opposed by many in the Iraqi parliament. That the U.S. military must resort to a strategy involving a physical barrier to separate feuding...
...insurgents aren't the only ones trying to bypass the walls. Local civilians have also dragged the barriers aside just to ease access to their own neighborhood. The U.S. has tried to accommodate residents' desire for normalcy by modifying the barrier to provide easier access to a local school. They're also trying to make it easier to reach a gas station that lies on the wrong side of the wall. But, while the barriers can be modified, it is not possible to so severely limit movement in and out of Ghazaliya without harming the neighborhood's already devastated economy...
...path to fulfill requirements for professional school, but rather a slow process that gives students tools through which they can comprehend the world they live in. Harvard needs to take more seriously its commitment to interdisciplinary studies that not only cross departmental lines, but also cross the humanities-science barrier. If not, then we will be able to watch the death of more concentrations in the near future...