From: Doug Henwood
To: lbo-talk
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:20 PM
Subject: the value of a Yale degree
I'm having a bit of a flamewar with my fellow Yalies on the class of
'75 list. A progressive black minister from New Haven, W. David Lee,
working up to a frothy
[snip]
pitch of anger, I read this quote from the world's most prominent
Yale alum, and was reminded just what a venerable institution the
university is.
>It is clear, he said the other day, that presidents should not organize a
>summit mmeting unless they know for certain they can get a deal. "This doesn't
>have nothing to do with reputation," Mr. Bush said, according to a transcript
>released by the White House. "It has everything to do with the consequences if
>it fails."
Doug
your "world's most prominent yale alum must be the lamb who lost his way, the sheep who went astray, as portrayed in the whiffenpoof song, "doomed from here to eternity":
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