Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person behind the mask doesn't seem so healthy anymore. Can I laugh at Howard Stern and still maintain a semblance of moral probity? Do I have to admit that his alleged sexism, supposed racism and seeming classism are beyond the pale of what's acceptable? Is Howard really...
...beyond all the moral reasoning--this is life, not a Michael Sandel lecture--the man and his show are funny. Very funny. More funny than a fulminating ideologue. The pleasure is voyeuristic and guiltless. I'm not ashamed to like Howard Stern...
Lunchtime is the atomic age, when all the groups split up and fan out, cluster at their tables or flee the school to the parking lot and the fast-food joints beyond, or settle into their regular spot in the school cafeteria, where everyone has a secret and nothing is hidden...
That chilling little drama took place last week, and now, 20 minutes before the opening bell, 10 fully caffeinated members of the Webster Groves staff, led by principal Voss, are discussing what to do about it--beyond the temporary suspension the student received straightaway. The group comprises what the school calls a Safe Team. It includes all the student's teachers, a guidance counselor, the school's part-time social worker and its police liaison officer. The team's first concern is to get the troubled student the help he obviously needs. But there's another mission, and an undercurrent...
...Groves public schools are facing a $1.2 million deficit in their $30 million annual operating budget, 80% of which goes to salaries and benefits. And the district faces millions of dollars in deferred repairs on the high school building, which dates from 1907. A close inspection of Webster Groves beyond its wealthiest avenues reveals the reasons for the deficit. To the north and south are neighborhoods of modest, well-kept homes that sell for less than $200,000 and bring in lower tax revenues. In short supply anywhere in town are land parcels given over to commercial or industrial taxpayers...