Word: laddered
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...Joseph Volpe, and already some of their luster is rubbing off. But for someone who only seven years ago was helping put up the sets for Opera Australia's touring school production of The Magic Flute, she's far from a pouting diva. While "playing up and climbing the ladder," is all part of the opera business, she says, "I just try and stay out of it and have a laugh...
...Britain, the average salary for an Indian is almost double that of a Pakistani and, across Europe, the Chinese do better at work and at school than native whites. So an employer could fill its antidiscrimination quota and still do nothing to help minorities at the bottom of the ladder...
...though Blumberg stumbled early, she did recover from a 2-0 deficit to force the deciding fifth game.“On another day, those could totally have gone our way, which could have turned things around,” Grigg said.The Quakers depth at the bottom of the ladder outmatched the Crimson, as Harvard lost the No. 7 match, 3-1, and was swept in both the No. 8 and No. 9 matches.“Although was 7-2, it should have been a 5-4 match,” Crimson coach Satinder Bajwa said...
Schools like Harvard and Princeton already have generous financial aid programs in place. They do their job of promoting diversity by supporting families at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. The real concern is the students who don’t quite make the cut for aid but still feel the crunch of tuition hikes. It’s good that someone is finally paying attention to their predicament...
...course, other points of tension remain, such as the concept of black identity, especially now that Harvard’s black students come from every corner of the African Diaspora and level of the socioeconomic ladder. Celebrating Black History Month is no longer as simple as paying homage to a few Black American leaders or addressing the problems of urban America, because those issues are no longer of universal significance within the black community, as many feel unable to relate to a “shared” experience of historical struggle. At Harvard, an increasing number of students...