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...He’s not a native of Cambridge—in fact, he was born and raised in the affluent, lily-white suburb of Wellesley, Mass. And after high school, he left the Boston area entirely. First he attended the University of Rochester on a Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship. Then he served for more than four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, trekking as far as Malaysia and the Philippines...
...become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names ... The foundations for Galbraith's current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare-it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against...
...legacy as the University president who oversaw Harvard’s first major capital campaign.His fundraising efforts would eventually quadruple the University’s endowment and budget. Pusey considered his task as president to make Harvard “an academically stronger University by making it a more affluent one,” according to a 2001 book about the University’s history, “Making Harvard Modern,” by Morton and Phyllis Keller.BIG-BUDGET BEGINNINGSThe Class of 1956 witnessed only the very beginnings of Pusey’s ambitious fundraising drive?...
...ideal has not come to pass in Great Falls and many other places. In the district which educated me, most school board trustees have called home an affluent area that accounts for only 12 percent of the school district’s total population...
...residents, who revitalized big apartment complexes like Battery Park City and pushed developers to convert old office buildings in the financial district into apartments, a trend already under way before 9/11. More than 36,000 people now live in lower Manhattan, up 58% from 2000. Those young, affluent newcomers have attracted posh new stores like Sephora and Herms and new restaurants like Bobby Van's Steakhouse, lighting up streets that once went dark...