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...More affluent parents send their kids to the best communities," he said. "School choice just makes it worse...
...President"), Kennedy defined a style that was half Harvard and half James Bond. But J.F.K. spoke for a generation that craved a larger-than-life icon, a President who legitimized both its bravery in World War II and its man-in-the-gray-flannel-suit struggles to create the affluent society...
...describes in his bestseller Savage Inequalities the differential treatment given to many children. He cities expenditures of $5,500 per pupil in the city of New York while that figure jumps to $11,000 in upper middle-class suburbs such as Great Neck and Manhasset. Some of the most affluent areas received as much as $15,000 for each of its students. Similar patterns exist in other cities...
...introducing the "survival of the fittest" concept, school choice would force the closure of weaker schools and induce struggling ones to renovate and restructure themselves. This would permit otherwise ineligible students to receive an education equal or comparable to that of their more affluent peers...
...there's an odd failure to reckon with the cultural side of menopause. Outside of affluent, white societies, menopause apparently goes by without much notice -- either because women's sufferings are considered unimportant or because the sufferings just don't occur. Greer coins the term anophobia to describe the irrational fear and dislike of old women so prevalent in Western culture, and one can't help wondering how menopause would be experienced in an "anophiliac" setting -- where elderly women receive the same respect and honor as gray-templed males. Hot flashes might feel like surges of energy, or like...