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...really know enough about it to comment. I don't spend my time thinking about the Law Review at Harvard. I think it's too elitist an institution. Too many faculty spend too much attention on too few of the students who are on the Law Review. I try to devote my attention to students who are not on the Law Review...
Last year's council was plagued by a reputation of being elitist and ineffectual. Several factors contributed to the image, including a highly publicized, make-or-break concert that flopped, internal strife that culminated in a failed effort to oust the group's treasurer, and a cumbersome grants process rumored to favor those with friends on the finance committee...
Even more frightening than this shallow proposal is the cynical, elitist mentality behind it. Most Americans, especially parents and schoolchildren, favor some kind of public school system, but our president seems to have given up on the idea almost entirely...
...President in 1988 was seen by some as an example of overweening ambition. Gore's recent book, Earth in the Balance, an environmentalist manifesto and call to arms that includes the idea of banishing the internal-combustion engine "in, say, 25 years," has been blasted by Republicans as elitist nonsense. Quayle told a group of produce farmers in Fresno, California, last week that "with Clinton and Gore, you can say goodbye to water, goodbye to food and goodbye to jobs." Gore has candidly admitted that if he had known he would be running for Vice President this year, he might...
...week's vice-presidential debate, Quayle suggested that he would be at a disadvantage because he was a product of public schools while Gore had mainly attended private schools. If the remark was intended to paint Quayle as a man of the people and his rival as a privileged elitist, it was disingenuous to say the least: both men sprang from well-known, well- heeled and politically active families. On his father's side, Quayle's family ran the Chicago Dowel Co., which produced Lincoln Logs. The Vice President's maternal grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam, was a prosperous conservative publisher...