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...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) rejected Schkolnick's final appeal, claiming a lack of jurisdiction to intervene in the matters of a private club. SWAT has been swatted, ZIP has been zipped and the Fly remains open--open to continue its antiquarian membership policies, open to perpetuate an elitist old-boy network, open to treat women like slabs of meat...
...every soldier who does not mutiny worthy of being reviled? Is every bystander who does not rush into a burning house to save innocent children guilty of their deaths? Of course not, precisely because it would require heroism to do so. It is elitist and untenable to take such a position, especially from the safe haven of Harvard University. How easy it must be to sit behind your Macintosh and write that people whose lives would be jeopardized by acting heroically must nevertheless act heroically to avoid being reviled as monsters...
...discounters like K Mart and Wal-Mart say they are not threatened by the new invaders, partly because they perceive the discount centers as out- of-the-way places, suitable mainly for tourists or big-haul shopping. Luxury department stores like Bloomingdale's and Saks Fifth Avenue take an elitist approach -- at least publicly -- and shrug off the challenge from outlet malls. "The competition in retail is always fierce, but our customer is not attracted to an outlet mall," says Carol Sanger, vice president of the Federated and Allied Stores chain, which includes Bloomingdale's, Burdine...
...truly "public" school. "It is a privileged school," acknowledges Anderson, an energetic and articulate Scotsman from a family of royal kilt makers, "with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting. But the only justification for privilege is that it should help people develop themselves to the full. We are elitist, but not exclusive. And I'm not ashamed in the least of being elitist. All that means is aiming at the highest standards you can achieve...
Britain's 550-year-old public school is elitist but not exclusive and increasingly tries to be modern. More and more scholarship students and foreigners enter its venerable halls...