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...DOWN, NO questions asked, the best piece of Ivy journalism today is in the Dartmouth, which leads with a revealing look at the school's early and regular admissions pools. Numbers in hand, reporter Marina Agapakis finds that Dartmouth's early pool is far less diverse and far more affluent than those who apply to the school through regular admissions. The differences are suprisingly staggering: The most drastic difference in representation between the two pools is in minority matriculants; 19 percent of matriculants from the early decision pool are racial minorities, whereas 40 percent of those accepted in the regular...
...That's still a problem for McCaskill, who lives with her husband, a wealthy businessman, in a modernist house near the affluent St. Louis suburb of Ladue. But it also happens to be a problem for Talent, who lives in Chesterfield, another upscale St. Louis suburb. Unlike most country voters, Talent talks fast and enunciates every word. In a room of overall-clad pig farmers, Talent's pressed slacks and Oxford shirts often seem too nice by half...
...good enough. Applicants to Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and the like come disproportionately from private schools and wealthy backgrounds. For the most disadvantaged students, the complexities of college admissions can be overwhelming. Even if abolishing early admissions means inconveniencing a few—even many—of the more affluent and resourceful admits, that’s a cost we are willing to bear in order to create a more simple and friendly process likely to extend the reach of elite colleges. On balance, the chance of improving the perception that elite universities are only for the elite makes Harvard?...
...bring that up because I sense the media are ignoring the true American family and instead are putting the dramas of affluent families on Page One. It would be O.K. if they delivered those portraits with a sardonic wink, so that we might laugh at the foibles of the well-off. But there is no wink. In the eyes of the media, we all buy Baby Einstein...
...from Paris or London to Marrakech flying faster than I can get from London to Paris by train," Loum-Martin notes. Even some enthusiasts worry, however, that the kingdom's success in luring residents from Europe may produce some friction. For example, Marcelle and Max Billaux say they know affluent French residents of Rabat's casbah who not only do not declare their domestics to authorities, but pay them j3 per day - not unlike the subservience wages some bosses in Europe pay illegal immigrants who will similarly accept nearly anything to land hard-won work. Moroccans who see such treatment...