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Perhaps the most insidious growth in the budget has come in payments to middle- and upper-class citizens, a type of handout that typically carries no test of need. Social Security payments have increased 17% between 1981 and 1986, to $198.8 billion, even after adjustment for inflation. Many entitlements rise automatically because they are indexed to inflation...
Russell Sage is among the most aggressive and innovative recruiters of female applicants. Among its techniques: assigning every arriving freshman an upper-class "big sister," along with a faculty mentor and a student adviser, and weaving "old-girl networks" to create the same kinds of career opportunities for its graduates that "old boys" have traditionally held out to young men. Russell Sage also puts its seniors in touch with alumnae executives who provide career advice and arrange job contacts...
...hostilities in Nicaragua might send a tidal wave of contra refugees crashing across the border. Costa Rican officials believe that in the event of peace, the peasant soldiers in their country would return to Nicaragua, with only the former National Guardsmen of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle and upper-class Nicaraguans choosing to remain abroad. Honduran officials are less sanguine. As it is, they must cope with some 150,000 Nicaraguan refugees. They fear that most of the roughly 12,000 contras would want to set up shop in Honduras, perhaps even refusing to be disarmed...
...THIS GOAL is entirely unattainable and to some degree immoral. The purpose of a liberal education in an institution which preaches diversity should be as much to enlighten white upper-middle class and upper-class students as it is to integrate or, as the case may be, uplift members of minority groups. These two goals, though, are incompatible. The former places the minority student in the position of being an intellectual diversion for others. Like the Foreign Cultures requirement in the Core, the minority student is programmed into the educational equation as just another variable to broaden the horizons...
Rites of Passage ends with a bang that would seem to preclude much in the way of a continuation. Edmund Talbot, a smug, upper-class young man sailing from England to the Antipodes in the early years of the 19th century, concludes the private journal he has been keeping for his godfather and patron back home. Talbot's shipboard jottings have coalesced into the remarkable story he witnesses at sea: the long scapegoating and mysterious death of Robert James Colley, an Anglican clergyman...