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Although this practice is used ostensibly for garnering different kinds of licenses, keup haeng ryo givers more often seek the highly-sought emigration papers needed to move to America. With a waiting list of up to ten or more years for would-be emigrants, many well-off Koreans choose to buy their way to the West...
...backed up. Although he's supposed to be desperate to escape a poor background, it doesn't quite ring true. A shot of his mother in a trailer park or his father in the mines might have done the trick, but Cruise looks too much the part of the well-off preppy young lawyer for it to come through...
...Harvard, we carry this deception even further. We never talk about economic injustice, only about race. We defend this race-based outlook by saying that Black students "tend to be" less well-off than white students...
...cases, the second trial of the police officers who beat Rodney King and the scheduled trial this summer of three black men charged with assaulting white truck driver Reginald Denny, will determine just how much anger is pent up in the city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio call-in show, a young gang member said he plans to raid...
With due respect, Neil Rudenstine, president of Harvard University, should be ashamed of the revelations by The New York Times that Harvard waived both the application deadline and fee to George Watson, a well-off Black student from New Jersey. As a Black student, I live with the stigma that I got into Harvard because I am black and not because I was "qualified." This burden increases with revelations of special treatment to well-off Blacks applying to the University...