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Granted, it is no secret that the rich are difficult to understand. In fact, the only thing that can really be said with any certainty about them is what the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Rich Boy” tells us in the second sentence of the story. “They are very different from you and me,” he says...
...Molloy division, which serves as the ‘B’ division for the Individual championship, freshman Jason Michas reached the finals before bowing out to Yale’s Chris Plimpton in a close 3-2 match. After a first round bye, Michas beat Scott Phillips of St. Lawrence, 3-2, followed by a 3-2 win against Yale’s Naishadh Lalwani in the round of 16. The Crimson freshman topped Princeton’s Peter Sopher in the quarterfinals, 3-1, before sweeping the Tigers’ Jesus Pena—seeded...
Despite some botched handling of the issue, we do commend President Obama for sticking to health-care reform in spite of the difficult political climate. Burdened by other pressing issues, like the need for jobs creation and Sen. Scott Brown’s critical electoral win, the president has maintained focus on health care in the rising spotlight and not let the issue die. While many other issues merit action, health care is, nevertheless, one of the president’s top domestic priorities. Given the extraordinary efforts to derail it, President Obama has now acted decisively on the future...
...limits its chances for success. The Tea Partiers either have to sacrifice their populist beliefs or their influence, the former leading to their incorporation within mainstream politics and the latter leading to their total disappearance from it. This explains the tendency of some Tea Partiers to distance themselves from Scott Brown after his victory; during his first broadcast after the election, Glenn Beck, an advocate for the Tea Party movement, criticized Brown and said his time in office “could end with a dead intern. I’m just saying...
...coherent set of beliefs than an anti-ideology, defining itself entirely by its opposition to political elites; once it takes part in this system of elites through electoral success, its failure to articulate a set of ideals results in its demise. Sensing the populist anger that resulted in Scott Brown’s victory, Obama tried to tap into it, but his efforts necessarily failed; as an elected official, he was a participant in the Washington culture that the Tea Partiers despised, and the rest of Americans took his dramatic proclamations with the grain of salt most populism deserves...