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Affirmative action (even for athletes and preppies) sometimes has a place in this land of second chances, where anyone can grow up to be president.
The Class of '69 was caught in the generational riptide--torn in two directions--but the Class of '70 (which had a radically different demographic--far fewer preppies) thought of itself as being in the vanguard of the counterculture.
Everybody knows that the best universities, law firms, hospitals, investment banks, and the State Department used to be run by preppies whose main virtue was fortunate birth, and are now open to one and all on the basis of merit.
Having recently returned from Calcutta, where the extent of the poverty was almost inconceivable to me, I now have even less sympathy for pathetic preppies who have to beat up each other to feel authentic.