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Twenty or so boys dressed in white tie and tails are being taught by Liam Maxwell on a recent Friday at Eton College, the exclusive boys' school 35 km west of London. For centuries Eton - founded in 1440 - has been synonymous with privilege, the place where Britain's élite is given its polish and an air of entitlement. But this class doesn't feel like a hothouse for languid aristocrats. The boys are not declaiming Latin[an error occurred while processing this directive] but staring into computer screens, trying to master the database program Microsoft Access. Though a student...
...fields, a soaring 15th century chapel, rooms where centuries of schoolboys have carved their names and a courtyard lined with plaques commemorating thousands of Old Etonians killed in service to their country. The physical setting complements other kinds of apartness the school fosters. Not just the uniform of white tie and black tailcoat, vest and pin-striped trousers, but a collection of customs and slang whose mastery confers membership in the brotherhood. Teachers are "beaks," the three school terms are called "halves," "wet bobs" are rowers, "tugs" are the 70 especially bright King's Scholars, who live together...
...come out quite confident." Hugo Dixon, a journalist who left Eton in 1981 and now runs Breakingviews, an online financial commentary service, says that British businesses - the London financial markets in particular - are so much more competitive and international that the idea of advance based on the old school tie "is just not sustainable." The Eton network helps, but "even if you're bright, you're not going to get anywhere without effort." Because Etonians themselves now expect to work hard, having the school on your résumé doesn't raise the same worries it did 20 years...
...Although students are moving right on many issues, the President isn't necessarily benefiting. In 2000 Al Gore beat Bush among 18-to 29-year-olds by only 2 percentage points, but recent polls show Kerry with a double-digit lead among the young. (The race is a virtual tie overall.) Of course, very few conservative students will vote for Kerry, but most of the kids who attended the conference didn't seem eager to become field troops for the President either. As National Review editor Rich Lowry noted on the conservative magazine's website the day after he spoke...
...have a social life,” Bush said.Roberts was also described as somewhat formal. Indeed, Bush recalls that “when he was considering law schools, John removed Stanford from his list because the Stanford interviewer was wearing sandals and didn’t have a tie.”At the Law School, Roberts became the managing editor of the Law Review, where he was known as a fair and honest boss and a hard worker who was never seen as ideological.“Whatever the hours, he never got stressed or angry...