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...Furthermore, extensive use of pre-natal screening presents a worrying situation in which those with wealth are able to purchase an objectively higher level of descendants than others. Selection of the most attractive traits presents a significant genetic advantage to the wealthy??more so than simply being able to afford a higher standard of medical treatment—and threatens to irrevocably exaggerate the divide between rich and poor...
...million to Harvard to found the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Topping the $100 million for international programs and the arts that Harvard received last April from David Rockefeller ’36, this gift is the largest donation in Harvard’s long—and wealthy??history. The Harvard community should be thankful both for Wyss’ generous donation and for the research it will fund. As a combined project between the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Medical School, the Wyss Institute will sit prominently a major nexus...
...through online blogs and town-hall meetings, and working with leaders at the grassroots level. Even as Royal called on her fellow Socialists to stick to traditional leftist policies—such as raising the minimum wage, improving public infrastructure, and eliminating tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy??she also demanded that the Left take harder stances on conservative issues like immigration, domestic security, patriotism, and religion.“We don’t want conservatives with bad ideas on one hand and the Left with no ideas on the other hand,” Royal...
...Curtis Institute of Music—one of the most prestigious music schools in the world—which has never charged tuition. But Bok says that because of the different socioeconomic demographics of each school—the Curtis Institute has very few students who are very wealthy??different tuition models are warranted.“Should we allow the really wealthiest families in America to send their children to Harvard for free?” he asks. “I think even those families wouldn’t agree with that...
...truth of the matter is, as hard as they try to keep in character (and they try pretty hard), the Billionaires are only ironically for Bush. Far from being the obscenely wealthy??s first explicit lobbying group, they are a particularly meta feather in the left wing, seeking to present the excesses of the Bush administration with jokey, street-theatre tactics powered by firm liberalism. Adopting outsize Bush-loving personas, the Billionaires spout often-scripted lines about what they say—well, heavily imply—is a president who has catered dangerously to the top wealth...