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...were irrelevant. I was not a "student of color" and, therefore, I was out of luck. I imagine that in the minds of those who support programs like SEO, I simply went home, called up my uncle on the stock exchange, got a job and retired to a posh country club for the evening. Unfortunately, the truth is that I must search through volumes of binders at OCS and actually perform the pedestrian task of sending out resumes...
...classic afternoon's adventure for young suburbanites, with a touch--but no more--of peril. In Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe and Kenilworth, the posh white suburbs served by New Trier, drug use isn't associated with gang violence, crack houses, addiction or dead-end despair. Getting high has become almost boringly conventional. Drew (names and some other identifying features have been changed), a regular at the Corner, has even kicked around the notion of buying "New Trier Smoking Club" jackets with his friends and awarding mock varsity letters...
Dauber writes, "If American boarding schools are falling apart, we need not waste our tears on them." This assessment is all too common; just last night a friend wanted to know about my "posh boarding school...
...money contributors he met in New York City and elsewhere. For $100,000, they say, Rosen has said a giver can get a short meeting with the President in the White House; $10,000 to $50,000 would earn a dinner with the President at a posh Washington hotel. One Democratic business executive said Rosen even hinted at staying overnight at the White House. Rosen denies he has offered anything other than the usual dinner invitations to givers. Says he: "I have been very conservative...
With Four Days in July (1985), the tone mellowed; Leigh was kind to both the Catholics and the Protestants of Belfast--though the Republicans had the funnier lines. High Hopes saves its venom for the hilariously rendered posh types and poseurs; toward its central couple of fuzzy Marxists, the film dares to be sweetly sentimental. In Life Is Sweet and especially Secrets & Lies, the working-class families are observed, warts and all, with an insider's love and forgiveness. "One way or another, all my films are about roots and families," says Leigh. "One of my cousins saw Secrets & Lies...