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...reason for this is pretty clear. Penn and Princeton have a Microsoft-like monopoly on Ivy League basketball. They have the impressive facilities, the rowdy fans and the history that give them the upper-hand when it comes to recruiting...
Playing together for Upper St. Claire High School, the two skated for the freshman team in seventh grade, junior varsity in eighth and the varsity squad in ninth...
...East 84th and I never had a clue. I drew no distinctions between limousine liberals and their conservative counterparts; nothing affected my perception that my adopted neighborhood was dominated by a homogeneous group. But stirring just below the surface was an equally potent force, integrated so thoroughly into upper-crust culture that any attempts to extricate it would surely destroy the existing social order...
...industry godfathers, who had a son enrolled—have filed, in groups of two and three, into the bowels of New York’s ritziest urban dwellings. Student doormen like me—hailing from Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Amherst—are paraded through the upper halls to be half-heartedly celebrated by residents, shown off as symbols of the security and assistance that are a phone call to the basement away...
...politically undermine the democratic government. Most notably, over $3 million have gone to fund the opposition party “Democratic Convergence” through the International Republican Institute. Since the 2000 parliamentary elections, the opposition has refused to participate in the electoral process. American support of the primarily upper-class opposition has succeeded in removing Aristide, even though this coalition of political parties and civil society groups has never received more than 12 percent of the popular vote...