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...latest quarter-century are the people who didn't go beyond high school, particularly the men. They are the only group that has less money to spend now than it did in 1970--more than $6,000 dollars less in inflation-adjusted annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...latest quarter-century are the people who didn't go beyond high school, particularly the men. They are the only group that has less money to spend now than it did in 1970--more than $6,000 dollars less in inflation-adjusted annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...frequently, I too would escape the high-school, let's-at-least-pretend-to-be-grown-ups world in which I normally functioned to descend to his cavern, trying to understand the man. Or at least to spend time with him--as if he were a child of my own divorced marriage and I had been granted only the most infrequent of visitation rights...
Harvard students are accustomed to wading through tour groups of camcorder-toting overweight fiftysomethings and overeager high-school seniors perpetually gathered around University Hall, gazing up in are at the John Harvard statue...
Coming off of successful high-school hockey careers, the freshmen on the Harvard men's hockey team are ready to get their college careers under...