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Such meritocracy is a nice idea except for at least two problems. First, those who apply to good schools and do well in school come disproportionately from privileged families, which tend to have more time, taste, and money for education. So no matter how meritocratic the school, most of its student and faculty applicants hail from upper-middle class and wealthy families. Second, no matter how meritocratic the school, current meritocracy rarely questions the social ladder’s height, let alone its existence. Meritocracy simply seeks to ensure free movement up and down the ladder so those most capable...
...really gross”—we took them to the Fogg and Arthur M. Sackler museums instead. There, it was pretty clear that humans don’t just make art. They are art. Just because we don’t tend to call Greco-Roman sculpture “hot” doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call freshmen “exquisitely crafted...
...best interests of children has always been the guiding principle of Australia's Family Court, which has sheltered them from the experience of being fought over in a place where entry requires passing through a metal detector and former spouses tend not to look at each other, preferring to whisper conspiratorially and derisively to their counsel about a person they presumably once loved. "Someone once said to me," says Relationships Australia's Anne Hollonds, "that in the Criminal Court you see bad people at their best, where in the Family Court you see good people at their worst...
...time) is an arrangement seldom imposed by the Family Court: judges ordered it in only 2.5% of cases in 2000-01, down from 5.1% in 1994-95. While Chief Justice Diana Bryant argues that shared care is a more likely outcome of the simpler cases, which tend to be determined in the Federal Magistrates Court, it happens most often when parents agree between themselves to try it. Recent research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies suggests that some 6% of separated parents use shared care - and that it's parents more than judges who conceive of more novel...
...founded the company last spring, said he could not have been happier with the sale. He had been in the denim business for about three-and-a-half years before starting Charity Denim, and he believes that the company is a logical conception because “sororities tend to be conscious about their clothes and are also very involved in philanthropy...