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...that takes money--lots of it. This year all the Republicans must set aside time to raise money from skeptical donors who barely know them. As a result, much of the time candidates normally spend meeting voters, discussing issues and formulating positions must now give way to schmoozing affluent donors. As Alexander notes, "I'd be a much better prepared President if I spent less time on Wall Street and more time on Main Street...
...technology generally breaks down along traditional class lines. Wealthy and upper-middle-class families form the bulk of the 30% of American households that own computers. Similarly, wealthier school districts naturally tend to have equipment that is unavailable to poorer ones, and schools in the more affluent suburbs have twice as many computers per student as their less-well-funded urban counterparts. All this disparity comes to a head in this statistic: a working person who is able to use a computer earns 15% more than someone in a similar job who cannot...
...paramount faith in market forces, at least partly because they fear eventual government regulation of access to the infobahn. As they see it, the forces of competition and the marketplace will drive the prices of equipment and online services downward and make both increasingly available to the less affluent...
Dressed in a presidential blue suit and with his black Labrador, Breezy, at his side, Dan Quayle looked and sounded every bit the candidate last Tuesday, as he chatted with a Time correspondent in the living room of his two-story white-brick home in an affluent northern suburb of Indianapolis. He eagerly outlined the themes of his campaign. Insisting that he felt vigorous despite treatment for blood clots last December and the removal of his appendix because of a benign tumor a month later, Quayle delighted in the belief that his message of family values was gaining currency. ``There...
...days are fading. With campuses and workplaces more integrated, it becomes harder to justify a continuing use of racial preferences as a clear remedy for current discrimination--especially when they channel benefits to blacks already in the middle class, sometimes at the expense of less affluent whites. And even among African Americans, who still support affirmative action by wide margins, there is resentment about the way it can cast doubt on the genuine abilities of anyone who benefits...