Word: coasting
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Between 1841 and 1851, the Irish population dwindled from 8 million to 6 million, these numbers driven equally by starvation and emigration. How much greater the indignity that the million who died mostly did so in anonymity, in unmarked mass graves along roadsides and near the coast. During the winter of 1847, the worst year of the Great Famine also known as "Black '47," one such mass grave, on a beach in County Mayo, was dug in the sand because the survivors were too weak to break the frozen ground...
...thing about the East Coast is that they have the Daily News and the New York Post. The paparazzi here come out of the gutter, and you never know when...
Wide social chasms, though not as pronounced as the separation between Coast and Yard, continue and flourish. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 states...
Today, the Gold Coast glitters no longer. But even with current randomization policies, the question of elitism at Harvard remains. The College is accused of admitting students based on money and social standing rather than academic achievement. Miller claims that times have certainly changed...
There is no longer the flurry of cotillion invitations and the constant sight of young men bedecked in top hats and tails strolling to their apartments on the Gold Coast to smoke a cigar under the light of a glowing chandelier. Nor the spectacle of languishing youths, waited on hand and foot by a faithful valet. However, the legacy of the Coast has not disappeared. Present-day inequity takes a subtler form...