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...team is progressing very well and according to plan," Chasson said. "We're turning in faster times than last year under similar circumstances. Our work ethic and training attitude is excellent...
...purpose was to affirm and enhance, identify and encourage the varieties of cultural and ethic experiences at Harvard, not making everybody conform to one norm, but also not encouraging a separatist mentality, which is what a Third World center tends to do," says Gomes. "We felt that the richness Harvard was beginning to experience through its diversity of students should not be accidental but intentional...
...both). But such findings have not dented the widespread impression that these groups are "model" minorities. Blacks are seen as less hardworking and less deserving than members of model minorities -- although 90% of them hold jobs and their West African ancestors were members of a society whose work ethic out-Calvined Calvin...
...Clotfelter and Philip Cook, professors of public policy and economics at Duke University, challenge the games of chance as regressive, inefficient means of raising revenue and suggest they prey upon minorities and the poor. The professors also wonder whether the lotteries' get-rich-quick appeal undermines the American work ethic. Arnie Wexler, director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling in New Jersey, another opponent, says almost half the calls for help that come to his organization are from lottery players...
College life is just a bastion of the Puritan work ethic. That's one basis of American society, but it lacks the emotion of ingenuity and surprise. So what if we can work hard, get secure jobs, set up trust funds for our children's education and save enough money to retire while we can still remember what we want to enjoy. Is this the American Dream circa 1990? Safe sex, safe drinking, safe bank accounts? We're getting so boring...