Aristocrats

Too Soon: Glibert Gottfried Tweets Tsunami Jokes

Posted 05.25.2011

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Gilbert Gottfried is known, and often respected, for being the guy who will go dark when no one else will. At the Roast of Hugh Heffner, which was th...

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Helpful Advice for Rhodes Scholars (For the Rest of Us, Maybe Not So Much)

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, New York Times, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard Business School, Aristocrats, Meaning of Life, Meritocracy, David Brooks, College News
Bradley W. Bloch

In replacing aristocracy with meritocracy, are we really opening the gates of opportunity, or merely replacing one narrow ideal with another?

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History Of Yoga, The Science Of Immortality

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yoga, Chivalry, Aristocrats, Stewart Lee, Books, Graphic Novel, Book Reviews, Candia McWilliam, Higher Education, Dreyfus, The Subtle Body, Books News

Did you miss this weekend's big book reviews? Catch up with some highlights below! "Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality," Jonatha...

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Slaves of Wall Street

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizen Action, Anger, Aristocrats, Wall Street, Solon, Deliberative, Debt, Unrest, Democracy, Debt Slavery, Oligarchs, Athens, Greece, Rage, Meltdown, Politics News
Jeffrey Abelson

Each time there's an eruption, ordinary people are the ones caught in the lava flow while the gods of high finance watch blissfully untouched from their own Mount Olympus.

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"Black Royalty"?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Royalty, Al Sharpton, Melba Moore, Judge Judy, Nell's, Harvard, Basil Patterson, Paris, Leatrice O?Farrell, Willie Horton, John-D-Rockefeller-Jr, Politics, Eunice Johnson, Wealth, Stevie Wonder, Dorothea Towles Church, Chicago, Slavery, Tuskegee Airmen, George Faison, Fashion, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Grafton Ttrew, Bowery Bar, Gilbert Stafford, The Duchess of Windsor, Cain, Baltimore, Area, John Jacob Astor, Sag Harbor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York, Barack Obama, US Air Force, George Johnson, Howard University, Percy Sutton, Aristocrats, Style, Mark Gilbertson, David N. Dinkins, Mother Theresa, New York Times, John Johnson, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, World War II, Booker T. Washington, Martha's Vineyard, Trixies, Crobar, Jonathan Capehart, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

The demise in succession of three African American figures of colossal stature on the eve of the new decade caused me to wonder anew about this designation, "black royalty."

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Newport: Yesterday's Seaside Paradise, Part I

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Summer Resort, Clinton & Rusell, Obama Vacation, Architecture, Newport Casino, Rodger Williams, Summer Cottage, High-Society, Henry Hobson Richardson, Eileen Slocum, Brown Family, Eileen S. S. Gillespie, Vanderbilts, Aristocrats, Ancestors, Elite, Newport, Stanford White, Mrs. William Watts Sherman, Sam Houston and General George Tecumseh Sherman, Astors, Obama Family, Jackie Kennedy, Entertaining, Ralph Francis Julian Stoner. The 5th Baron Camoys of Stoner, Ogden Codman. Harry Lehr, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

The Obamas aren't coming to Newport to vacation, but one hundred or even fifty years ago they would have. An idyllic spot, it's about to become the subject of several new books.

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