Word: haven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their money, the drug barons may have brought only a superficial prosperity to Medellin. "Their money hasn't created much employment because they haven't invested in productive infrastructure," says Juan Gomez Martinez, publisher of Medellin's biggest daily newspaper, El Colombiano (circ. 100,000), and a candidate for mayor. "They have spent a lot of money on imported luxuries." Escobar, for example, is said to have imported gold-plated bathroom fittings for a penthouse he frequently used. His wife had more shoes in her closet, according to local lore, than Imelda Marcos. The penthouse was abandoned by the Escobars...
...They've made comments, but in terms of anything tangible, they haven't done anything," said the UCAR member who was threatened. She added that administrative apathy is part of the reason racism on campus has increased over the past year...
...definitely frustrates us," Taucher says. "A lot of times we come off the ice thinking we had a good game, but there's nothing to show for it. We haven't gotten a lot of breaks...
...administrators say this worker dissatisfaction is unfounded. When the University pay scale and benefits are measured against other employers, Harvard does measure up. Workers opposed to the union say that they haven't found any evidence that the union would improve their material benefits...
...became eleven, he went to the big school. He was eleven. It was 1986." This spareness suggests parable, a single accessible version of complex truths. Yet beneath its clear surface, Lessing's novel roils with several possible meanings. Perhaps David and Harriet, in their zeal to create a haven for themselves and what they call the "real children," have blinded themselves to humanity that lies "outside the permissible," beyond their constrained definitions of themselves. Maybe Ben represents a dangerous, violent streak in the species that must be either tamed or excluded from the realm of civilized life...