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...fact, American Canvas takes a more Mapplethorp-friendly but no less aesthetically reductive view: "[T]he arts community has long labored under a stubbornly persistent class system of its own, one that continues to haunt the field...a demographic profile that tends to be older, wealthier, better educated, and whiter than a typical cross-section of the American public." One prescription: "No longer restricted solely to the sanctioned arenas of culture, the arts would be literally suffused throughout the civic structure...from youth programs and crime prevention to job training and race relations--far afield from the traditional aesthetic functions...
Moreover, Harvard's endowment is deceptively large In fact, in an important sense Rice-and Princeton, Agnes Scott College, and Academy of the New Church-are wealthier than Harvard...
When the two met, the Sawai Man Singh Hospital was turning out only five or six artificial limbs a year, mostly for people injured in road and train accidents, and a few of the wealthier patients wore American-model limbs. Both were too expensive for the common man, and neither permitted very much mobility. Besides, as Sethi explains, the old artificial limb was a cultural misfit not just for Indians but for people in most developing countries. "We sit, eat, sleep and worship on the floor--all without shoes," he says. Also, the "shoe" attached to the old limb...
...traditionally had difficulty raising funds. It stands at 72 percent of its goal-far behind the professional schools, which benefit from wealthier alums...
...Senate at least took a swipe at the encrusted special interests, voting in June to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67, hike premiums for wealthier retirees and require nursing-home residents to make a small co-payment. But the House didn't want to go along. "We did a courageous thing," says Lott. As the negotiations entered their final stage, Lott recalls, the response from House members "went from a courteous blank stare to an outright NO! ... I'm ashamed of the House, and I'm ashamed of the President," says Lott, faulting the President for refusing to take...