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The main ideas in the speech will be true to the themes Mr. Biden has espoused throughout his career: working together, asserting America’s leadership in the world and giving the working and middle classes a leg up — a continuation of the “bottom up, middle out” philosophy he has honed over his last half century in politics.

Michael has become someone free of an identity only in so far that he can use that identity to serve getting what he wants, which is a leg up, a need or want for representation in modern corporate America to further his own career.

It might not have been worth it, but it was a leg up—a bruised leg up, but a leg up all the same.

Blending the two critiques can get you the centrist prescription for reform: Elite schools should emphasize class-based rather than race-based affirmative action, the argument runs, while phasing out preferences for jocks and legacies that give privileged whites their own leg up — a combination that might yield a still-diverse, more authentically meritocratic upper class.

Barney Ronay: Giroud’s running scorpion volley, a lovely move and a ludicrous finish, made all the more improbable by the fact he seems to stop mid-scorpion to winch his leg up a little higher, like a very stiff man trying to wriggle his way over a garden fence.