Word: legacyism
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...feeble-minded,” but his words also sum up one attitude towards Harvard’s legacy admissions. You can frequently hear muttering about how unfair it is that Harvard is admitting legacies over equally—or even more—qualified candidates. Anti-legacyism is the last acceptable prejudice. These underqualified, overprivileged, moderately pasty folk need to stop slipping over the admissions border and stealing everyone’s slots. Or so the argument goes.Harvard’s admitted tendency to “take a second look” at legacy applicants continues...
BUILDING A LEGACY
Learning from the Universities I exhaled a profound sigh of relief upon reading "Class Dismissed" and learning that some Japanese universities have finally begun to open their doors to foreigners [March 17]. Although superficially Japan has the aura of being international, desperate measures are needed to educate the populace into...
So in July 2004 he jumped too, from U.S. Airways to Dubai-based Emirates. His new company provides him with a freshly pressed uniform and a chauffeur-driven car to each flight. Murray has twice the vacation time (42 days), guaranteed annual raises and a benefits package that has lured...
If this were a normal democracy, Mugabe would have been turned out years ago. He has presided over a social and economic crisis that has seen unemployment reach 80% and inflation at more than 100,000%, while average life expectancy has plunged to 34 for men and 37 for women...