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...fact, Ashcroft's religious substance is also fairly smooth. As the Assemblies' members became more affluent, the group de-emphasized its more unusual practices, including the once central gift of tongues. Ashcroft has followed suit. Says his longtime friend, Assemblies official George Wood: "I have never in a service observed John expressing one of what we call the charismatic gifts." Nor does he mention them in his book, despite much talk of God and Christ. Instead, he is known as a writer of gospel songs and a punctilious churchgoer who once, while Missouri Governor, surprised a Sunday-school teacher...
Blanket point boosts for minorities ignore the reality that every individual has a different experience. I would think that the black student from a poor, inner-city neighborhood would have a better claim of injustice than the black student from an affluent suburb. It seems downright insulting to assume both of these candidates share an identical, uniquely "black" perspective, simply because of their skin color...
...white, was raised by a single mother in a housing project. R. Fred Lewis, a native of West Virginia, keeps a dish of coal dust on his desk to remind him of his family's coal-mining origins. Barbara J. Pariente, who is Jewish, was raised in an affluent New Jersey suburb by parents who did not attend college. "Although I had the benefits of my father working very hard," she once said, "I understood he had to work very hard for what...
...unfathomably deep. The phrase has become mired in the blurry realm of cliche, applied variously to women, the disabled, seniors, ethnic minorities, rural and inner-city populations. But the underlying threat is real. Technology has moved so fast that a new upper class--composed largely of the same white, affluent, college-educated males that made up the old upper class--has spurted ahead of the rest of society, mostly because they have the time and money necessary to acquire and understand the tools of the digital revolution...
...Given the tendency of the affluent to secede...to buy their way out [of societal institutions], there's less mixing of classes and people," he said. "And when there's not enough of a common life that people think they're in a common project, democracy falls apart...