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...zero-sum world, the exploitation of loopholes and the pulling of strings secure great benefits to those who are able to do so: the affluent and the educated. Ultimately, we have institutions and systems to keep personal jockeying from interfering with social functions that we believe should be impartial and impersonal. And I find it troubling that Harvard, as a collective culture, is teaching its students not to refine and improve the fairness of the systems they come into contact with, but rather to regard these systems as obstacles in the way of their own personal fulfillment...
...Little Haven, a home for infants born HIV-positive and drug-addicted. I spent three weeks there, and afterward spent many theology classes reflecting on its significance in my life and the lives of the children I touched. That education changed the way I looked at my relatively healthy, affluent and protected upbringing in suburban St. Louis, and it continues to color my observations of a highly individualistic, often cold and uncaring Harvard today. I see religion all around me. But the gods included in this pantheon are named Money, Narrow Ambition, Mindless Competition and Consumption. So the story goes...
Coffeehouse customers, Cambridge police officers, and a local minister all said Harshbarger was an urban professional who would do best collecting votes from the city's more affluent neighborhoods...
...youth came to him terrified that he would be arrested for the death of his girlfriend, whom he'd helped get an illegal abortion at the hands of a "back-alley butcher." Powell was moved by the youth's dilemma--and by the injustice and risk that a more affluent couple could avoid by going to a state where abortions were legal. Though the consummate judge, Powell dealt with people as they were, not just as clients or employees or adversaries. He listened to all sides; he understood the theoretical as well as the practical; he knew that sometimes...
...case that shocked the nation, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson, high school sweethearts from affluent New Jersey families, went to prison Thursday for contributing to the death of their newborn infant in a Newark motel room in 1996. Grossberg was sentenced to two and a half years, while Peterson received a lesser sentence of two years because, said Superior Court Judge Henry Ridgely, he pleaded with Grossberg to seek help with the pregnancy. Both defendants could have received 10 years. Sobbing in court, Grossberg said, "I'll never be able to forgive myself for what happened." Today is her 20th...