However, execs at big telecoms want to create a system of privilege for people who can pay more.

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Many of Howard's students have behind-the-scenes access to the political system with the privilege of regularly participating in internship programs at the White House, on Capitol Hill, and other federal government agencies, because of the school's location in the nation's capital.

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Liberating single mothers requires more than showing other women of privilege how they can be queen of the system.

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It has been a particular privilege for me to serve with the extraordinary colleagues throughout the Federal Reserve System.

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If the indignant depictions of the class system in so many Titanic dramas coexist uneasily with their adoring depictions of upper-crust privilege, that, too, is part of the appeal: it allows us to demonstrate our liberalism even as we indulge our consumerism.

NEWYORKER: Unsinkable