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...Trump? We're in a bull market for reality TV about rich people (Rich Girls, The Simple Life), but most of the silver-spooners on those shows have not come off well. (An exception was Trump's daughter Ivanka in HBO's documentary Born Rich. Amid a cast of upper-class twits worthy of Monty Python, she seemed refreshingly level-headed. "I was very proud," her dad says. "She came off like a member of society, as opposed to somebody from Mars.") And he's a busy enough man as it is, which he happily underscores by handing...
...novel?s suspense came from its withholding of the news that [SPOILER ALERT] Scott?s upper-class friend Jack Marlow is the killer. You can?t obscure the star till the end of the movie, so Schoenfeld and Siodmak don?t waste time trying. From the moment Marlow (Franchot Tone) enters Cliff?s dingy digs and mutters, ?What a place. You can feel the rats in the walls,? he has pearly psychopath written all over him. Especially his hands, which poke out of the shadows into harsh light. ?How interesting a pair of hands can be,? Marlow muses, as Cliff...
...respect they remedy several problems associated with the current system, where financial aid programs provided by many institutions often do little to mitigate the exorbitant costs associated with higher education. As is, students from lower-income backgrounds are much less likely to enter college than those from middle- or upper-class backgrounds, and few see the most expensive private institutions as within their financial reach. That only six percent of Harvard undergraduates receive Pell Grants—federal grants for low-income students— exemplifies this trend. Additionally, even middle-class families often face severe financial burdens from higher...
...upper-class ladies are reaping the benefits of initiation as well...
...outcome is the worst kind of trickle-down rights: middle- and upper-class women are educated about contraceptives and have access to abortion providers. As a result, not only do they have fewer unplanned pregnancies, but when such pregnancies arise, they are capable of terminating them easily. Little education about contraceptives and limited access to providers means the reverse is true for women in lower income brackets. To be sure, despite the lack of access, women in poor economic circumstances still contribute to a disproportionate amount of all abortion procedures. But those percentages do not demonstrate the difficulties the women...