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What’s also wrong is the elitist nature of the deal. Students from America’s less affluent families are duking it out in Iraq while Harvard’s elite is off doing irrelevant things like running for the UC or campaigning for gay rights at a place that is already a haven for it. Harvard students don’t want to die; de facto, we are asking other people...
...Luis Guevara, 50, is a Caracas cabbie who for decades drove wheezing, beat-up taxis because an elitist banking system denied him the kind of small business loan so desperately needed all over Latin America. Last year, under a microcredit project for wannabe capitalists created by Chavez from Venezuela's record oil windfalls, Guevara got a $15,000 loan at a reasonable interest rate; now he owns a new Chevrolet he can use to pick up fat fares at the airport. Guevara could care less what you call the policy: "It works for me whatever...
...This is an elitist report, as it is only concerned with rich people who go out to eat at restaurants,” said Bercaw during the public comment portion of the meeting...
...only within the fast food industry, but also in the society that sustains it. “Right now we have this mass delusion, [as] a culture, that you’re not supposed to care about your health, and if you do, you’re an elitist,” he says. “Being healthy these days, or informed, or being of healthy mind and body is the new act of civil disobedience.”But Linklater seems to have put faith into an uncommon hope: that a new leader will emerge in American politics...
...them how to write and think. These two invaluable assets make them very appealing to law schools and employers. But I am interested in justifying the study of literature as an end in itself, not just as useful primer for more worldly endeavors. Is it after all a perennially elitist pursuit, the perquisite of an ivory-tower class, an ecstatic act of mental masturbation? And if it is the last, who cares? Am I disturbed by possibly devoting my life to something so solipsistic? Or does the persistence of a literary public give the study of literature some genuine import...