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The controversial Russian-based Greek conductor has been banished from the majority of Western institutions.

But if most legal distinctions between classes in America were officially banished in 1789 — among white people, that is — considerable inequality of wealth and capital not only remained, but increased and hardened in place.

From Salon

An even more interesting thing happens when you focus on these marginal characters—these outsiders, who are supposed to have been banished to the borders.

From Slate

Many popular and influential stories center the marginal figures who were previously banished to the monstrous borderlands—and some of them look back on the former center and go, “What the hell was happening there?”

From Slate

They won a first Copa del Rey the following year while finishing runners-up to Real Madrid in La Liga, reached the semi-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1995-96, finished third in 1996-97 on the back of Rivaldo’s 21 goals and, finally, in 1999-2000, banished the anguish of six years earlier as a side including Silva, Fran, Roy Maakay and Djalminha won the club's first La Liga title.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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