Word: wasps
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Christie Todd Whitman, of course, is pro-choice and Eastern Republican. She springs from the same Eastern WASP aristocracy that produced Bush. But those facts do not hurt with independents. The chemistry of the Bush-Whitman ticket could be winning. The choice of Whitman for the Bush ticket would have no taint of the condescending gender-pander; an Al Gore-Diane Feinstein ticket, by contrast, would merely seem the crowning insincerity...
...Harvard made some progress away from its old reputation as breeding ground for the WASP elite. In 1973 Harvard instituted an affirmative action program targeted toward women and minorities...
...WASP Meets the Westerner...
...WASP Meets the Westerner...
...Prestige-wise, the Algonquin ranks second to the Somerset. Family bloodlines are not as consequential as the corporate credit lines. Capitalism proves itself in the Algonquin to be the great equalizer—in the early ’80s, the club’s membership was predominantly WASP, but today its thousand members reflect the growing racial diversity of the city’s corporate population...