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...college admissions process has become one in which people who are affluent have lots of resources, prep courses, access to electronic applications," he says. "To me the common application removes some of that," he says...
Once upon a time, though, the world was his terrified playground. Navigating his way with fluency in six languages, Carlos was an elegant chameleon who prided himself on breaking hearts and heads. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he was the son of an affluent Marxist lawyer who named his three sons Ilyich, Vladimir and Lenin in honor of the Russian revolutionary. His home life had the sparkle of "champagne radicalism," according to Christopher Dobson, one of his biographers...
Produced by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creators of thirtysomething -- a show that also skillfully portrayed the interior lives of affluent young people -- My So-Called Life depicts Angela's turmoil at home and in school. In a leafy suburb we find Angela perpetually at odds with her mother and father. She wants from her parents what all teenagers want, the freedom to go to a rave or dye her hair a fiery red. At school she is torn between an enduring affection for her childhood friend Sharon -- a well- behaved clarinetist dressed to her socks in pink...
...receives AFDC payments without having at least one child to feed, wash, dress and pick up after, and the assumption of the welfare reformers seems to be that these activities are on a par with bonbon consumption. In the conceptual framework that holds that welfare mothers "don't work," affluent married homemakers can't rank much higher than courtesans...
...documents a drop in crime in neighborhoods that provide adequate parks and recreation activities for youths. Unfortunately, the study notes, the best parks tend to be clumped in the wealthiest neighborhoods. In Chicago the impressive lakefront has 41 acres of parkland for every 1,000 residents; on the less affluent West Side there is only half an acre per 1,000 people. In Congress, Minnesota Democrat Bruce Vento is trying to rectify such inequities by co-sponsoring legislation to provide more money for parks and programs. "Recreation," he points out, "is less expensive than incarceration...