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...BEIJING-BOUND Every four years, the Paralympics follow on the heels of the Olympics. Elite athletes with disabilities ranging from blindness to paralysis compete in the same venues and live in the same Olympic athletes’ village. The competitors in the Paralympics are the “elitest of disabled athletes. They train just as hard if not harder as Olympic athletes,” said Peggy L. Ewald, Kolbe’s high school and Paralympic coach. The U.S. Paralympic swimming team won 44 medals in Beijing. Paralympic swimmers are classified according to the severity of their disability...
...BEIJING-BOUND Every four years, the Paralympics follow on the heels of the Olympics. Elite athletes with disabilities ranging from blindness to paralysis compete in the same venues and live in the same Olympic athletes’ village. The competitors in the Paralympics are the “elitest of disabled athletes. They train just as hard if not harder as Olympic athletes,” said Peggy L. Ewald, Kolbe’s high school and Paralympic coach. The U.S. Paralympic swimming team won 44 medals in Beijing. Paralympic swimmers are classified according to the severity of their disability...
...anymore. Even when I agree with them, which is more often than you would think, I no longer want to be seen as being part of that group. It isn?t because of their politics, which I think are misguided; it?s because they come off as snobby and elitest. I think they look down their nose at ordinary Americans...
Anderson’s deadpan artistry helps this tale of literate, elitest characters make their way through their upper-class milieu. Recalling Rushmore’s opening yearbook sequence, Anderson starts the film off with an expanded, hilarious prologue introducing the young geniuses and documenting their rise to fame and the insane treatment they were afforded by their father. The look of the pages at each chapter title gives the feel of a highly stylized story, a fantastic aspect that is further accentuated by Alec Baldwin’s tart narration as he guides viewers chapter by chapter through...
While it is not difficult to find students who heartily concur with Redmond's characterization of final clubs as "racist, sexist, elitest, etc.," others felt that the problems with final clubs as they currently exist are not intractable...