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Rawls contends that faced with this situation, people would build their society around two principles. Most important, everyone should enjoy all liberties compatible with ensuring the same liberties for everyone else. The second guiding principle dictates that social and economic inequalities must satisfy two conditions: they must be attached to positions and offices open to all citizens under conditions of equality of opportunity and, second, they should work to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society...
Well John Rawls wouldn't either. The first flaw in the Ec 10 example is that it presents two fundamentally unequal situations. If you do your math, you will notice that the entire social pie in the first alternative is $9,900,001. In the second example, the social pie has mysteriously shrunken to a few crumbs, or $200. The choice is a joke...
...getting Rindge and Latin students into Harvard doesn't go too far in solving the problems of interactions between the two schools...
Jackson, the treasurer of the two-year-old Committee on Help for the Advancement of Needy Children through Education (CHANCE), says the gulf is wide between the ivory tower and public high school...
Because of the tremendous diversity of languages spoken at Rindge and Latin, "two-thirds of the high school students we see are here because English is their second language. That need is increasing," White says...