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...even if the same forces that created the old-boy network are still welding together the future bourgeoisie, the Establishment to come will be much more progressive in outlook. Most students at Andover and other prep schools describe their politics as liberal compared to that of their parents...
...done. She also barged into official business in an unhelpful way, agents say. An FBI official describes her coming into a confidential meeting in Sessions' office at the FBI "in a housecoat and slippers," turning on the TV and thereby ending the briefing. Mrs. Sessions has responded that "the old-boy network" at the FBI can't accept strong-minded women. "They've never really had a director with a wife," she complained to the Washington Post this month. "They've never had a woman executive there...
...protesters, and some Law School professors,say the criteria used in hiring are unfair anddiscriminate against candidates who are not partof an "old-boy" network. Some professors arguethat a woman must be "twice as qualified" as a manin order to be hired...
...Japanese equivalent of America's "old-boy network" and the growing corruption fueled by "Yenocracy" taint Japanese politics, Matsuyama said...
Which was cool for Kennedy fils. If you think having a big-shot Harvard-educated daddy would help a kid get into Harvard today (and oh, it would, it would), suffice to say that in 1935, when the old-boy Brahmin network ruled the roost, when almost everyone who applied to Harvard was accepted anyway, Kennedy bloodlines rendered the application process somewhat unnecessary. A recommendation from Harry Hopkins, chairman of FDR's Federal Employment Relief Administration, probably didn't hurt JFK's chances much, either. He could get away with an application that, as Light said, "looks like he just...