Word: legacyism
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Take, for example, poverty and legacy admissions, two interrelated phenomena. Many conservatives are poorer than the average Harvard student and more likely to come from working-class backgrounds. It would be condescending to assume out-of-hand that the same holds true of minority students. But given that more minorities...
With the exception of the classroom, life inside the Ivy walls had little to do with merit, and everything to do with old money and "social grace." These lay at the foundation of the final clubs--always a blend of legacy status and the characteristics that Abbot Lawrence Lowell called...
The once vibrant institutions that gave the little guy a fair shake and a share of the action in the New Deal era have atrophied into empty shells: political parties, labor unions and working-class newspapers. Taking their place, Greider provocatively argues, are the cool, rational tools of by-the...
Blacks do not enjoy crime and violence any more the whites do. But the two groups differ in their ability to effectively institute solutions because Black Americans are burdened with the legacy of second-class citizenship and the continued existence of racism and discrimination.
But like the consolidation of democratic rule, the transition from socialism to a free-market economy requires a strong state. Venezuela today barely qualifies. Perez II is saddled with the legacy of Perez I. Many of those high- visibility projects that he unveiled in his first term have become rusted...