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Who Needs Harvard?
theodp writes "Slate's Daniel Gross explores why big corporations are hiring fewer Ivy Leaguers. Is it because today's bosses aren't as snowed by polished young Ivy grads as they were in the past? Or are today's Ivy League graduates simply so wealthy that they no longer feel the need to find stable, high-paying jobs at big companies?"
It's more likely that unless you come from a wealthy family you don't have a chance in hell of paying elite university tuition. Even the more working-class universities are picking up the wasteful spending habits of the elite schools. Mine sure has. (Check out the EMU President's McMansion next time you're in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It's just down the street from the convocation center and football stadium. They're trying to build a new Student Union now too, when classrooms are in dire need of repair and equipment. And tuition keeps rocketing skyward. The UofM, next door in Ann Arbor, can get away with crap like that but I don't know where the Eastern powers-that-be got the idea that they can. Anyhow...)
Reagan received the same crap that Bush is receiving from you lefties, but the former Soviet ruling class thought he was rather effective. Islamic fascists are finding out the same thing about Dubya.