Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MacDonald, 33, grew up and still lives in South Boston, a legendary ethnic enclave that contains one of the country's highest concentrations of white poverty. The distinction is not appreciated by Southie residents, who bristle at being lumped with the black and Hispanic underclass...
...have taken care of most of the graduation-season logistics: burning books, laughing at underclass students and issuing stock market shares in our souls to loan officers. What remains, however, is the big question: Just what was our Harvard experience all about? For the purpose of argument, ignore the water torture and Grade Z beef-like substance we have been forced to endure...
...underclass student asked me for some advice the day before he left to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller. Clearly, he did not read the surgeon general's warning permanently branded to my head that reads: "Listening to this guy is extraordinarily dumb. He's a little nuts...
Howdy folks. This is it. My last column for which underclass students will be on campus. So in it I have decided to talk about things that only certain seniors will...
...think that Netanyahu owes his success to a fringe group of anti-peace process zealots. In fact, those on the extreme right reject Bibi as too moderate and will not support him. Rather, Bibi's popular strength is much more organic. Netanyahu is the king of the Israeli underclass. Those who are alienated from Israel's privileged, Ashkenazi upper-class find a real leader in Netanyahu. In particular, Bibi has skillfully stitched together an ethnically heterodox and eminently loyal support base of Sephardim (Jews of Middle Eastern origin), Russian immigrants, and the ultra-religious. Although Barak may enjoy the applause...