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...those well-educated, well-off women fortunate enough to have a choice between a family and a career, a stagnant male-dominated world still drives over 40 percent of professional female graduates back into their kitchens, unable to reconcile their intellectual and familial goals...
...Past social movements have attacked the inequalities associated with being born of a different skin color, of a different gender, of a different economic class but never of having a different citizenship. I was born with the privileges of being white, male, and well-off, but the greatest privilege bestowed on me at birth was my U.S. citizenship. Today, a U.S. citizen, ceteris paribus, is worth more than any other citizen on this earth. The easiest way to learn this is to posses both U.S. and Guatemalan passports. My U.S. passport gives me the freedom to travel the entire world...
...Where Harvard continues to fail, however, is in providing an acceptable level of financial aid to middle-income families. These families, which make between $110,000 and $200,000 a year, have been excluded entirely from HFAI’s windfalls. And they are many more numerous than less well-off families. Extrapolating from numbers cited by Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, it appears that nearly two-thirds of the College’s student body comes from middle-income roots. They represent $170 million in tuition fees. Yet many middle-income...
...illegals. Again and again, the immigrants asked themselves the question: Is coming to the U.S. worth it? The wages are undeniably good, as much as $15 an hour for manual labor in the Hamptons, 10 times the rate for the same work in Tuxpan. But even among the relatively well-off guests at the quinceañera, there has been a heavy price to pay for the opportunity: estranged marriages, wayward children, hostile neighbors here in the U.S. and a beloved hometown in Mexico whose long-term prospects seem to dim with each worker lost to the north...
...Billion Yen My Way?. He appeared to be living proof of his boast. Over the past five fiscal years, Livedoor has acquired 27 companies, increasing revenue 22-fold to nearly $800 million. He has also been an aggressive financial democrat, constantly splitting his stock so that younger and less well-off Japanese can afford to become shareholders. If you had bought a single share of Livedoor in early 2003, it would have multipied into 10,000 shares today. The stock became hugely popular-even schoolchildren became stockholders. And since Horie retained a 17% stake in his company, the cash influx...