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...their younger and lower-paid workers, like his granddaughter Amanda Fargo, 21, who earns $5 an hour as a receptionist in a beauty salon. Savage approves of taxpayer subsidies for the elderly poor, but adds, "It's unconscionable . . . to take money away from these kids and give it to well-off people...
While Harvard's well-off, well-known faculty members would seem to have little in common with the people who make up its staff, the two groups do share one view: that the administration made decisions adversely affecting them without adequately making them a part of the process...
Cole's mother was a lawyer who taught at Columbia for some time, according to Sylvan Cole. The well-off couple lived in the city, and they currently reside in a Riverside Drive apartment overlooking the Hudson, worth between...
From everything I have heard about the past composition of Harvard classes, Mr. Chrisman's Class of 1955 would have been (almost without exception) white. Protestant or Catholic, and fairly well-off. Forty years later, my Class of 1995 is vastly more diverse, with people of countless racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds, a good proportion of them from non-Western countries. I therefore must confess that I do not understand the usefulness of requiring all students to have a thorough grounding in Western Civilization. Although a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (a definition which I see the need for only...
...landlords say that rent control is unfair and amounts to subsidized housing for well-off people--like Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72--who live in rent-controlled housing...