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...final clubs' "punch" process isn't random. These clubs remain an enclave of the rich, prep-schooled and well-connected, and they don't pretend otherwise. They exist to continue that social stratification; closing the doors to everyone but themselves and their wealthy alumni ensure that the ruling class continues to receive its undeserved perks...
...staff makes stereotypical assumptions about both the clubs and the women involved in the boycott. The club members are "rich, prep-schooled and well-connected," the clubs represent "oppression" because the clubs "exist so that their members don't have to deal with people unlike themselves," and the women pushing for reform want only "their `right' to exclude working-class students, poor students, and non-connected students from [the clubs]". These are misrepresentations of both the clubs and the motives of the women...
...Clinton is being cast as a "supporting actress," in the words of White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, while the President plays the lead sales role.) Other Administration officers will hit the road to whoop up the plan; the White House has brought in a TV coach to prep them to make the most effective possible appearances on national talk shows and local programs. Among other things, they are being told to avoid jargon: to talk of alliances, for example, instead of Health Insurance Purchasing Cooperatives -- and for heaven's sake not HIPCs (pronounced Hippicks...
...Park Avenue apartment of "the maestro," practicing on a magnificent Bechstein piano. When the maestro dies, Claude inherits the instrument, which is crammed into Weisfeld's shop for Claude's exclusive use. Luminous pianists line up to give the lad free instructions. Fellowships to a posh East Side prep school and then to a select liberal arts college effortlessly materialize. Claude's heart is dented by the rich Catherine, but he goes on to marry her cousin Lady, who confides in passing that she has a trust fund worth $5 million...
ORNERY IS A GOOD TEXAS WORD. IT'S probably the word Tommy Lee Jones' teachers were searching for when, on a report card at his Dallas prep school, they described him as "sullen, morose and belligerent." But ornery is just a corruption of ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has never been ordinary. Not at Harvard, where he roomed with Al Gore, played on the football team and graduated cum laude. Not in his two-decade career as a charismatic character actor. Not in his parallel career as a Texas cattle rancher, or in his passion for polo. And surely...