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...straight." He was a little guy too, with the same chestiness, the same rolled-up sleeves as Dean. He was congenitally pugnacious, a former boxer (Dean was a wrestler). He claimed to provide a voice for the voiceless--albeit a set of alienated Americans very different from Dean's affluent Net surfers. Wallace voters were, well, white guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. And he was a formidable national candidate. In 1972, he won Democratic primaries in Michigan and Maryland. His slogan--"Send them a message"--could easily be Dean's. In fact, Kerry has taken to saying...
...troop strength, and, not surprisingly, recruitment and re-enlistment levels are down. But proposed enlistment bonuses and other economic incentives will not make the military any more attractive to upper-middle-class young people. Increasingly we will be a nation in which the poor fight our wars while the affluent stay home...
...Paris (IEP), one of the country's élite higher-learning institutions, announced in September that annual tuition at the school will rise from the current €1,050 up to €4,000 a year. Students from low-income families will pay less than those from more affluent ones. UNEF, the French National Students' Union, claims the increase at IEP is a sign of privatization. At present there are no plans to introduce across-the-board tuition fees, but students are troubled by proposals to harmonize diplomas to European standards and give individual universities more freedom to allocate budgets...
...million it attracted in 2002. After recently inking deals with Nike and British mobile phone operator O2, it has kick-started negotiations with U.K. utility Powergen and brewers Tetley's. For businesses, the rough-and-tumble game's appeal lies in its audience; a primarily male, affluent demographic, anchored in the corporate sector. "The marketability of English rugby...
...article is correct to point out that Harvard could take the national lead in working to increase access for lower-income students, as it has done for racial diversity. But while Harvard could do more, it is also up to parents at home and teachers and counselors at less affluent high schools—as well as school and government officials who should be pushing for increased funding for needed SAT prep and AP programs as well as counselor training—to make sure students know that the doors of higher education are open to all good students...