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During the summer after her sophomore year, Lang started an SAT tutoring program in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with the goal of reaching less affluent high school students who couldn't afford classes at the major test-prep companies. When she returned to Harvard that fall, she founded a similar program, Get Ready!, in Boston...
...strong democracy doesn't tolerate poverty in an affluent society," he said. "It doesn't tolerate everything for sale...
...blitz created the image of a bankruptcy system rife with abuse and in need of reform. That campaign told of rich people walking away from their debts, courtesy of bankruptcy court. It told of responsible families who paid their bills being forced to pick up the costs of more affluent Americans and others who were bilking the system. And it warned that bankruptcy had lost its "stigma...
...advice." In contrast, "home was a place where I always felt alone." Alienated from her workaholic mother, she had only one other friend and hated her grueling workouts on a nationally ranked swim team. She obsessed over fashion magazines and couldn't figure out why her life in affluent New Canaan was nothing like that of the beautiful rich kids on Beverly Hills...
Katie Tarbox, the very picture of affluent teen normality, shows off her family?s two-story house in the plush Connecticut suburb of New Canaan. The 18-year-old stops only to look briefly in a mirror and smooth down her already well-coiffed, highlighted blond hair. Then she takes me to her room, where a Gateway computer and a Sony Vaio vie with her Laura Ashley bedspread set and wicker furnishings. "The Vaio is such a beautiful thing," she sighs. We go back downstairs and say hello to cockatoo Agidore and Katie?s older sister ? also blond and round...