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...Rudenstine is correct to be "troubled" by growing concerns that some Black students from affluent families are receiving scholarships at other colleges beyond the suggested federal guidelines, but he is wrong to allow the use of smaller enticements such as free trips and waived application fees...
Paffenbarger said in an interview yesterday that Harvard alumni who participated were "bright, educated, capable, accomplished, successful, affluent, health oriented, with a higher than average lifestyle...
...many ways the current system allows the wealthy to claim more than their fair share of benefits. Robert Shapiro, a budget expert at the Progressive Policy Institute and a campaign adviser to Clinton, points out that the most affluent 4% of American families, who earn more than $100,000 a year, collect more than 8% of all federal subsidies for retirement -- equal to about $30 billion a year. According to Shapiro, Clinton could address this imbalance by stating that "those who can take care of their own health care and retirement are obliged not to claim a disproportionate share...
...guilt of the survivor is a familiar psychological construct. That observation could be applied to the novel, but would not do justice to Begley's imagination and authority as a writer. Ben's feelings about his escape from the Holocaust and his transformation into an affluent non-Jewish Jew in America are complex and ironic. He is too intelligent to misinterpret his problem but too emotionally bottled up to solve it. Begley shares some of his resume with Ben, but he has not written an autobiography. The Man Who Was Late is a what-if novel -- specifically, What...
...over 50, perhaps the greatest thing you could do for Bill Clinton is rip out this page and send it to Lovola Burgess, president of the American Association of Retired Persons (601 E St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20049). Otherwise, the minute Clinton proposes anything that would pinch affluent retirees in any way, the AARP leadership will squelch it -- along with America's chance to get its house in order...