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...luncheon reception at Lowell House, several members of the Harvard staff and faculty commented that the day’s events proved how today’s progressively diverse Harvard is a far cry from the College’s history of educating primarily affluent white males...
...approved because of the way school board elections take place. Because candidates generally finance their own campaigns, those from wealthier areas are much more likely to succeed. Currently, says Kavulla, “five out of the seven board members live within blocks of each other, in a single affluent neighborhood...
...HAVE A TENDENCY TO MAKE TOO MUCH of test-score differences between the sexes (which are actually very small compared with the differences between, say, poor and affluent students). And regardless of what happens in school, personality and discipline can better predict success when it comes to highly competitive jobs...
Rips believed that his father was the epitome of all things placidly, plainly Midwestern: "Born in Nebraska, he was Republican, affluent and content." But after Rips' father died, a loose thread appeared: a portfolio of paintings of a naked black woman. Nobody knew who the woman was or anything about the nature of her relationship to the family patriarch. Rips began tugging at the thread, and before long the whole gray flannel suit unraveled...
...host family agrees to provide a bed and three meals a day for a student and to treat the visitor as a family member, meting out both chores and hugs. The students come with health insurance and spending money. Some affluent empty nesters treat their kids to travel and other goodies, but hosts don't have to spend much, says Inge Gabel. "I always cook for more than two anyway," she says, "and we live near Niagara Falls and take all our kids there...