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Meltzer wrote, “I suppose the biggest achievement, in a global sense, relates to those circumstances??I hope at least that we generally succeeded in providing sound advice, and avoided making large mistakes in a situation in which it is all too easy...
...article contends that spoiled, “affluent” students should not downplay their wealthy origins because maintaining a “veneer of more frugal circumstances?? is “insulting.” Instead, in McAuley’s idyllic fantasy, wealthy students should have no qualms about showing off at every opportunity...
Considering our very own pool of wealthy Harvard undergraduates, is the imperative to hide wealth beneath a veneer of more frugal circumstances??to be rich and to pretend to be otherwise—just another one of those inexplicable differences...
...determined mostly by who they fall in love with or how their families work. But when you read science fiction attentively you see how much of an individual’s life is guided not by psychology, and not by the unconscious so much as by technological and material circumstances??the difficulty of obtaining information, the availability of transport fuel, the speed of communications...
Currently, the six-school pledge makes an exception for “special circumstances?? in developing countries, including India, China or Brazil, allowing drug patents in some developing countries...