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...millions of parents who face the same predicament. But when a couple with a net worth of more than $2 million hire not only an undocumented nanny but a driver as well, when they fail to pay the Social Security and workers' compensation taxes they owe, when a topflight corporate lawyer married to a renowned Yale law professor blames their troubles on "bad legal advice," the sympathy hardens into fury. As consumer advocate Ralph Nader observed, "This was a family that could afford to hire Mary Poppins...
...other universities pour scholarship money into building diverse campuses, topflight minority students increasingly have become hot commodities, courted and wooed like star quarter-backs...
...products, between the art that we practice and the sandwichmaking they do cannot be tolerated." McDonald's says it is willing to negotiate a settlement with Bocuse, who says he will donate whatever award he gets to his Ecole des Arts Culinaires d'Ecully, where the new generation of topflight French chefs is trained...
...prospering because crime pays in the ghetto. Many gangs have made the deadly transition from switchblade bravado to organized crime, serving as highly efficient distributors for Colombian cocaine dealers. Stiff competition has prompted bloody firefights in broad daylight over market share, while the influx of drug money provides topflight weapons, fancy cars and high-tech surveillance equipment. Once an adolescent phase, gang membership is now a full-time job, enticing many members to stay well into their...
Three years ago then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky recognized the importance of Women's Studies and established a committee to bring the burgeoning discipline to Harvard. In the process, he also burdened the committee with an unrealistic task: that of bringing to Harvard a topflight scholar who would double as an administrator and generate an entire Women's Studies program, which has proven at best lukewarm to the idea...