Word: egalitarians
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...paper résumé is egalitarian, more or less, and that's why human-resources people are wringing their collective hands over visually enhanced job applications. Many recruiters won't even accept CVs with photos attached for fear of lawsuits. Some companies even block out the candidate's name, citing studies that showed bias toward the white-sounding ones. They're worried that video résumés will invite lawsuits by candidates who could claim bias based on race, gender or age--indiscernible on paper but not on video...
...heights, the school decided to do away with antiquated methods of discipline. Edward Holyoke, class of 1690 and president from 1737-1769, ended the custom of flogging students. More importantly, Holyoke was instrumental in a movement towards valuing merit over social class, planting the seeds of an egalitarian tradition that the University would strive to expand throughout its history...
...resilient media force that just won’t go away. The new wave of radio technology on the horizon, such as satellite, high definition, and internet broadcasts, guarantees to alter the industry in exciting, but unpredictable ways.Until someone comes up with a better medium than the pervasive, egalitarian radio signal, however, radio will continue to be worthy of our attention.—Staff writer Kimberly E. Gittleson and contributing writer Evan L. Hanlon are executives at WHRB, Harvard’s student- run radio station. Gittleson can be reached at gittles@fas.harvard.edu...
...daughter Meiping was an attractive and intelligent young woman of 23. Growing up in Communist China, she had seen a society in which the children of the educated and affluent had enjoyed many advantages replaced, not by an egalitarian society but by a new system of discrimination against children like herself and their families. For instance, to be admitted into a good middle school, she had to score 80% on the entrance examination while children of workers and peasants got in with 60%. ''This is unfair!'' I had exclaimed at the time, indignant that my child was being discriminated against...
...Actually, the one thing we all have in common is our style," says Ken Salazar. The new Rocky Mountain Democrats are populist, unpretentious, egalitarian and tough. They tend to be avid hunters and fishermen. (I was with Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer one day when he reached into his pocket for a pen and pulled out a 30.06 rifle bullet.) A surprising number of them have backgrounds in law enforcement. Of the Democrats who have been elected Governors in the all-blue stripe of states running from Montana to New Mexico, only Bill Richardson of New Mexico has spent any time...