Word: preps
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...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...
...Tennessee, who served as adviser/shepherd to Roberts. Thompson's schedule does not allow it, the aides said. Ed Gillespie, the lobbyist and former RNC chairman, will take on some of those duties but will leave his full-time status as a "special government employee" (albeit a volunteer) to help prep Miers...
...played at clubs around the world, and there’s no place like this,” says trumpeter Jason Palmer, whose band, the Jason Palmer Jazz Collective, played Wally’s on Saturday night. Palmer, 26, teaches at the Conservatory’s prep school...
Being a cheerleader is no longer an instant ticket to popularity, as Katie and her best friend, Lauren Wyble, 13, discovered this year when old friends started criticizing them. "Cuz I'm a cheerleader, most of my friends call me a prep," says Lauren with a mournful look. "People make fun of you for being one," Katie explains. "My mom says they're just jealous and to ignore them, so that's what I try to do." But Lauren is hurt by the attitude of old friends who now resent her devotion to the sport. "I just tell my friends...
Even though being an action hero might not be his ultimate career goal (he has just shot a movie about a civil rights--era basketball coach and wants to do a slapstick comedy), Lucas certainly works hard at it. To prep for the role, he went through the Air Force's flight survival-training school, where he was blindfolded and put in a helicopter that was then crashed upside down in the water. "I really got close to extreme panic," he says. "I thought, I'm going to drown. And I'm drowning for a movie...