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...comfortable eight-floor Georgian building in midtown Manhattan, the invitation promises, lies the exclusive domain of The Club, 96-year-old bastion of tradition for the highest circles of American society--one of the first real-world rewards for attending Harvard...
...otherwise identical qualifications, the policy still favors those born at the top of the social heap. Granting this advantage to the fortuitously born tilts the playing field against minorities and the economically disadvantaged, because most current legacies are descended from people who attended a Harvard that was a bastion of rich, white Northeasterners...
Cambridge has on occasion taken its lumps in the national media for what critics describe as a lack of patriotism. The most recent attacks have come from noted conservatives--chief among them them former Secretary of Education William Bennett--eager to savage the city's reputation as a liberal bastion...
...prime reason for the flurry of regulation is that cigarette bashing has become politically popular. Even such a tobacco bastion as Greensboro, N.C., has an ordinance against smoking in retail stores and other public areas. As a sign of the diminished power of Washington's once feared tobacco lobby, Congress is considering 72 bills to inhibit tobacco use. Kennedy's proposal would create a $185 million Center for Tobacco Products, with broad powers to regulate the industry. His costly plan faces an uphill battle, as does another bill, proposed by Congressman Henry Waxman of California, that would allow only informational...
...they do not. Fitzsimmons acknowledges that the legacies Harvard admits are predominantly white, affluent Northeasterners, many of whom come from elite prep schools. After all, the parents of most legacies went to Harvard sometime between 1945 and 1969, when Harvard was largely a white Protestant upper-class bastion...