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...compared with theirs, and as a young man, he lost considerable money in his disastrous attempt to become a cattle rancher in the Dakota Badlands. But all his life he moved easily in a world that dressed for dinner. When he led the Rough Riders, it was in a uniform from Brooks Brothers...
...endless green 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...
...life can look to the Old Etonians who have run Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. All in all, it's a good time for Eton. To let the world catch up with this news, Little says he has mused about doing something splashy like scrapping the uniform (he decided against it). But is what's good for Eton good for Britain? For all its recent economic and cultural success, Britain has not left all the old wounds of class division behind it. Contrary to popular belief, social mobility in the country has stalled. The absolute number...
GENERAL BARRY McCAFFREY, U.S.A. (RET.) Former U.S. drug czar In the 10 years since I've been out of uniform, I've been increasingly aware that without an aggressive free media publicizing shortcomings in government, this nation would work ineffectively at its public business. [The press] talking about a generalized vulnerability we have--that trains aren't protected--and railing against it sufficiently is more likely to protect us than put us in peril. If you publish diagrams of network computer switching, that wouldn't be the case...
...having more flexibility while not using up more manhours will greatly outweigh the costs. A test run would not be hard to execute. 10. Expos. Expository Writing 20 should not be a requirement. While Expos 10 serves a valuable purpose for students who enroll, Expos 20 has no uniform standard and does nothing but clog up a valuable spot for freshmen who, according to all the rhetoric surrounding delaying concentration choice, need as much freedom as possible to explore different concentrations. It’s time to stop pretending that Expos is a valuable “small class?...