Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...slow to give the government, much less the vice president, any credit for it. Besides, in a race where authenticity is at a premium, the populism is real to him. It takes him back to where he started in politics. "Al Gore inherited a fighting streak for the underclass from his father," says longtime Gore adviser Roy Neel. "If you were a poor factory worker with a backyard satellite dish in rural Tennessee as your only real link to the world and big cable companies were telling you to shove it, then Al Gore was your...
...both teams, a definite strength going into the 2000-1 season will be the combination of veteran experience, solid recruiting and underclass performance. If all components come to fruition, the Crimson has reason to be optimistic about the prospects for next year...
...wore skirts to dinner every night and waited until the Head Resident led the procession into the dining room. After dinner, coffee was served in the Living Room. All the underclass persons waited on tables on a rotating basis...
...Shakespeare production on campus. It never rains but it pours, though, and many are wondering what caused this sudden flood. Edelman credits the plethora of Shakespeare to "Coincidence, as well as the general Arts First swelling and the relative ease of doing a production late in the semester." Though underclass students may wonder what is so easy about finding free time late in the semester, for senior directors the time could not be better for one last show. "I'd directed a play last spring, and I wanted to try one more play before I graduated," said David Egan...
...politicians, burbling over how to educate the underclass, would do well to stop by Room 56 this week, as Rafe Esquith's fifth-grade class mounts its annual Shakespeare play. There are few costumes--mainly T shirts inscribed with an image of the Bard under the words WILL POWER. Most of Esquith's 29 pupils are classified as gifted or high achievers, but that hardly guarantees success in an environment where poverty and gangsterism are endemic. Some of his incoming students this year "didn't know two times three," he says. "Four of them couldn't write a sentence...