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...League literature faculty now in their forties are chronologically my generation, but they made their way up the ladder not because they were of the Sixties but because they were of the Sixties but because there was nothing Sixties about them. I know, because I was in graduate school with these characters. I saw how they operated. The never challenged or threatened the status quo--which is exactly why they were hand picked to succeed the conservative old guard...
Muscovites living at the upper end of the social ladder have their own problems. Russia's new entrepreneurs were struggling last week to cope with a government order that went into effect Jan. 1 banning trade in currencies other than the Russian ruble -- notably the American dollar, which accounts for the lion's share of sales. The move to get dollars out of circulation is intended to bolster confidence in the faltering Russian currency, but it has proved a real headache for Russia's novy rich, who have got used to earning greenbacks through lucrative foreign business connections and using...
...Cleveland would not have achieved its current prestige without Dohnanyi, who arrived in 1984 after having worked his way up the traditional German opera-house ladder. Beginning with the Frankfurt Opera, where he was Georg Solti's assistant, Dohnanyi spent time in Lubeck, Cologne and finally his adopted hometown of Hamburg before heading to the shores of Lake Erie. He has ended any doubts about his abilities as a symphonic conductor with performances that combine Szell's rigor, Boulez's unerring ear and a controlled interpretative fire...
...continue to subsidize middle-class and upper- income Americans? At what income should any benefit cuts begin -- $40,000? $50,000? $100,000? Is it equitable for Washington to take tax dollars from 20- year-olds earning the minimum wage and redistribute some of the money up the economic ladder to $100,000-a-year pensioners collecting Social Security? And will the Clinton Administration risk offending potent constituencies like ! the elderly in the quest to reform government benefit programs...
...dowry system is alive and well. Instead of money or parcels of land, the new dowry consists of at least one advanced degree and the promise of unimpeded progress up the social ladder. Lemann skewered this practice when he observed that a college admissions dean "acts as a de facto marriage broker...