Word: jailã
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...people who don’t love him? Well, many of them are dead, or in exile. The rest are in jail??although jail might be too kind a word for what is, to all intents and purposes, a system of warm-weather gulags. Unlike Coyula-Cowley, they don’t have the opportunity to cruise through American supermarkets and then complain to the Boston Globe that “there are too many choices” here. They aren’t pulling down a $50,000 salary, and can’t say smugly...
Contrast that with the so-called civil disobedience of which Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02-’03 writes in “Why Janitors Are Willing To Go To Jail?? (Opinion, Feb 25). These janitors are not complaining of not having basic rights and freedoms; they are not protesting the injustice of being denied the right to vote or assemble or control their own fate. These janitors are protesting that their union’s negotiating team was not able to get them an additional $3 an hour pay raise in the midst...