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...many other areas of discrimination, women face double jeopardy. Guys who marry a few rungs up the looks ladder are rock stars or rich or have, I don't know, beautiful penmanship. Women who marry up, well, they're deluded. Their husbands must be gay or have really bad bacne to even look at them. And the standards are ridiculous. Deborra-Lee Furness is a charming, spirited, good-looking woman who happens to be married to Hugh Jackman, a freak of nature. Hence rumors circulate that Jackman is gay. Had there been an Internet in times gone by, they probably...
...hide information from affected parties. This is only compounded by the presence of federal funds. One of America’s core principles is the idea of individualism and meritocracy, and federal student loans serve that end by providing all talented Americans with the opportunity to climb the social ladder. Colleges and loan companies are thus not only betraying students but also the American government and the American dream. The monetary incentives for such behavior are reaching unimaginable proportions. The student loan industry is approximately a $14 billion per year industry, and it is growing. All it takes to create...
...single track leading from the military to Harvard graduate school, veterans with a master’s degree or MBA in hand pursue an array of opportunities along with their peers. Some will return to the armed forces, while some will climb the ranks of the corporate ladder. Monterisi will work as a real estate developer in New York City, Gildroy has a job lined up at Goldman Sachs, and Stokes has a spot at Boston Consulting Group...
...airline's marketing hasn't done it any favors: The Porter mascot is a raccoon, public pest number one for Toronto home owners because the rampant critters nest under their homes, claw into their garbage and treat TV antenna towers as a ladder. "The airline is elegant and upscale, so why go with a Disneyesque marketing approach?" says Barry Avrich, filmmaker and president of Toronto ad agency Endeavour, who on a recent Porter round-trip was one of six passengers...
...seismic shift. Bear in mind that half a century ago, as men moved from villages to cities-or overseas-to find work, they had very little contact with their sons. Those sons, with educations paid for by their fathers' remittances, were able to advance up the socioeconomic ladder. But the jobs they took-many of them white-collar jobs at the heart of the Asian economic boom-robbed them of a family life, too. Today, their sons-the third generation and the present crop of fathers-are the product of two previous generations of absent dads. "The pattern of fatherlessness...