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This argument was coupled with emphasis on career aspirations: climb the corporate ladder and then worry about children, in vitro, or adoption from China. If Charlotte could manage her own gallery before bringing up a daughter, so can you. If technology and female empowerment have given us anything, it’s the option of merging financial success with family stability. Listen young ladies, simply put the wedding bells on hold and you can have...
...fact is, it still takes far less to get here if you start on the upper half of the economic ladder, from which more than 80 percent of the college still hails. This University has always embraced class-based affirmative action, but of an inverse sort based on the self-perpetuating system of legacies and prep school pipelines...
...long before climbing the Washington ladder, Roberts was a straight-laced conservative in Leverett House with plans to preside over a lecture hall—not the nation’s highest court...
...there failed in getting the word out to people who did not know how to handle themselves in a Category 4/5. I've lived here long enough and interviewed enough Hurricane Camille victims that when I battened down the hatches I made sure I had axes, an extension ladder and boat flares, all in preparation for going into the attic if rising floodwaters made it necessary. As it turned out, my house was completely destroyed. Around the corner from there, an entire young family died. I watched them pull their bodies from the rubble last Saturday...
...established himself as Hollywood's go-to smarmy jerk in such sublimely '80s comedies as Nine to Five and Tootsie. But he hit his apex of riotous unlikability in this 1983-84 sitcom about local talk-show host Bill Bittinger. Selfish, lecherous and desperate to move up the career ladder, he irritated and deceived his crew (including a young Geena Davis) with impeccable smarminess. Bill presaged HBO's Larry Sanders and The Office's David Brent, but it took TV a decade or two to catch up with him. Thankfully...