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If you look at the Forbes top 10 list, most of them, especially the younger ones, went to spectacular schools (Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Ecole Polytechnique, RWTH Aachen, etc): http://www.worldsbiggests.com/2010/03/world-richest-people-top-10-list.html The usual retort that you...

George W. Bush entered Yale in 1964. Those were the days when you could get admitted just because your dad was a senator or an Yale alumni. Those days are long gone. Do you know why when it came to the two Bush twins, one went to Yale while the other went to UT Austin? That's because one of...

They are both crappy universities too: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/andrew-oswald-theres-nothing-nobel-in-deceiving-ourselves-764880.html Oxbridge's budget and endowment are a fraction of top American private universities'. For this reason, their graduate programmes...

Correction: All but one. Gao Xingjian has no PhD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_K._Kao (University College London) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Yonchien_Tsien (University of Cambridge) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Xingjian (no PhD)...

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The local press always makes this out to be a big thing but the truth is that nobody really gives a shit about the Jessup. The best students at Harvard, Yale, Stanford Law Schools don't waste their time on such low-brow nonsense. The ones who take part in the Jessup are the hillbillies who have...

Just because Goh Keng Swee was a lanchiao lampaist and you are a lanchiao lampaist means that Goh Keng Swee is respectable? Lots of other two-bit schmucks are also lanchiao lampalists --- you respect all of them too? The power of Wikipedia is amazing. People who don't know shit can now use...

The reporter was probably misinformed. Jeyaretnam's "double first" means a first in both Part I and Part II of the Economics Tripos. Nowadays Part II is divided into Part IIA & Part IIB and it's entirely possible to get "triple first". In fact it's not too hard -- at Cambridge, more than 30% of...

Check this one out, a Leica that costs S$40,000, almost as much as what Tan Yong Soon paid at Le Cordon Bleu. http://www.amazon.com/Leica-Interchangeable-Sapphire-Platinum-Service/dp/B002NPCJ0Y

I hope your wife and daughters would become maids someday. And let their employers heed your advice.