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ParticipantHow NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard
Funny stuff:
“Early Reading Not Needed
Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.
Board Games Won’t Help
Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.
Not All A’s
It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.
The Right Donation
It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.
Getting the Recommendations
Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard
ParticipantHow NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard
Funny stuff:
“Early Reading Not Needed
Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.
Board Games Won’t Help
Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.
Not All A’s
It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.
The Right Donation
It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.
Getting the Recommendations
Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard
ParticipantHow NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard
Funny stuff:
“Early Reading Not Needed
Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.
Board Games Won’t Help
Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.
Not All A’s
It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.
The Right Donation
It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.
Getting the Recommendations
Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard
ParticipantHow NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard
Funny stuff:
“Early Reading Not Needed
Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.
Board Games Won’t Help
Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.
Not All A’s
It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.
The Right Donation
It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.
Getting the Recommendations
Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard
ParticipantHow NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard
Funny stuff:
“Early Reading Not Needed
Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.
Board Games Won’t Help
Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.
Not All A’s
It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.
The Right Donation
It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.
Getting the Recommendations
Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Jp: Check out Niall Ferguson’s book “The Ascent of Money”. Excellent history of finance through history.[/quote]
Who’s to blame for the financial crisis? A great debate
” In an Oxford-style debate, six financial experts discuss whether Washington or Wall Street is to blame for the economic crisis.The experts include Niall Ferguson, a Harvard historian and the author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” and economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University, who predicted an economic crisis and has come to be known as “Dr. Doom.”
The debate, sponsored by the Rosenkranz Foundation, was moderated by John Donvan, a correspondent for ABC News “Nightline.” It took place in the Caspary Auditorium at The Rockefeller University in New York City. ”
here is the audio:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/25/midday2/here is the full transcript
http://bankwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/financial-crisis-031709.pdfParticipant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Jp: Check out Niall Ferguson’s book “The Ascent of Money”. Excellent history of finance through history.[/quote]
Who’s to blame for the financial crisis? A great debate
” In an Oxford-style debate, six financial experts discuss whether Washington or Wall Street is to blame for the economic crisis.The experts include Niall Ferguson, a Harvard historian and the author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” and economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University, who predicted an economic crisis and has come to be known as “Dr. Doom.”
The debate, sponsored by the Rosenkranz Foundation, was moderated by John Donvan, a correspondent for ABC News “Nightline.” It took place in the Caspary Auditorium at The Rockefeller University in New York City. ”
here is the audio:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/25/midday2/here is the full transcript
http://bankwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/financial-crisis-031709.pdfParticipant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Jp: Check out Niall Ferguson’s book “The Ascent of Money”. Excellent history of finance through history.[/quote]
Who’s to blame for the financial crisis? A great debate
” In an Oxford-style debate, six financial experts discuss whether Washington or Wall Street is to blame for the economic crisis.The experts include Niall Ferguson, a Harvard historian and the author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” and economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University, who predicted an economic crisis and has come to be known as “Dr. Doom.”
The debate, sponsored by the Rosenkranz Foundation, was moderated by John Donvan, a correspondent for ABC News “Nightline.” It took place in the Caspary Auditorium at The Rockefeller University in New York City. ”
here is the audio:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/25/midday2/here is the full transcript
http://bankwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/financial-crisis-031709.pdfParticipant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Jp: Check out Niall Ferguson’s book “The Ascent of Money”. Excellent history of finance through history.[/quote]
Who’s to blame for the financial crisis? A great debate
” In an Oxford-style debate, six financial experts discuss whether Washington or Wall Street is to blame for the economic crisis.The experts include Niall Ferguson, a Harvard historian and the author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” and economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University, who predicted an economic crisis and has come to be known as “Dr. Doom.”
The debate, sponsored by the Rosenkranz Foundation, was moderated by John Donvan, a correspondent for ABC News “Nightline.” It took place in the Caspary Auditorium at The Rockefeller University in New York City. ”
here is the audio:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/25/midday2/here is the full transcript
http://bankwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/financial-crisis-031709.pdfParticipant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Jp: Check out Niall Ferguson’s book “The Ascent of Money”. Excellent history of finance through history.[/quote]
Who’s to blame for the financial crisis? A great debate
” In an Oxford-style debate, six financial experts discuss whether Washington or Wall Street is to blame for the economic crisis.The experts include Niall Ferguson, a Harvard historian and the author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” and economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University, who predicted an economic crisis and has come to be known as “Dr. Doom.”
The debate, sponsored by the Rosenkranz Foundation, was moderated by John Donvan, a correspondent for ABC News “Nightline.” It took place in the Caspary Auditorium at The Rockefeller University in New York City. ”
here is the audio:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/25/midday2/here is the full transcript
http://bankwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/financial-crisis-031709.pdfParticipant[quote=Navydoc]I would argue strongly that going to a top school doesn’t make you a good doctor. … We went to the University of Pittsburgh, a good second tier school. Who do you want to operate on you? The studious honors student with no clinical judgment, or the average student who concentrated on being more well rounded, and can make better decisions? …
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UofP is not second tier. Isn’t where the most elite doctor in the America, JAMA editor in chief Catherine DeAngelis earned her degree?
JAMA Editor Calls Critic a ‘Nobody and a Nothing’
[Mar 13 2009]“Jonathan Leo, a professor of neuro-anatomy at tiny Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn., posted a letter on the Web site of the British Medical Journal this month criticizing a study that appeared in JAMA last spring. The study concerned the use of the anti-depressant Lexapro in stroke patients. In addition to identifying what he said was an important omission in the paper — that behavioral therapy worked just as well as the drug when compared head to head in the study — Leo also pointed out that the lead author had a financial relationship with Forest Laboratories, the maker of Lexapro, that was not disclosed in the study.
In a conversation with us [WSJ reporters], DeAngelis was none too happy to be questioned about the dust-up with Leo.
“This guy is a nobody and a nothing” she said of Leo. “He is trying to make a name for himself. Please call me about something important.” She added that Leo “should be spending time with his students instead of doing this.”
Leo says he received an angry call from JAMA executive deputy editor Phil Fontanarosa last week, shortly after Leo’s article was published on the BMJ Web site. “He said, ‘Who do you think you are,’ ” says Leo. “He then said, ‘You are banned from JAMA for life. You will be sorry. Your school will be sorry. Your students will be sorry.” Fontanarosa referred a call for comment to a JAMA spokeswoman, who said Leo’s retelling of the conversation was “inaccurate.” ”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/13/jama-editor-calls-critic-a-nobody-and-a-nothing/
But it gets better. Instead of making a retraction, JAMA adopted a new policy, total censorship of critics:
“As a result of the flap, JAMA says it is adopting a new policy under which anyone asserting that study authors have failed to disclose conflicts of interest should keep the matter confidential until JAMA investigates, the WSJ reports. That move is already generating controversy.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/23/jama-sets-new-policy-in-wake-of-disclosure-flap/
A policy for readers of JAMA? You cant adopt a policy for readers, only authors! Oh, wait I just read the licensing agreement on the cover page that states that reader must not object in a public forum, or be banned for life. But what do I know, I didn’t go to Harvard Med, otherwise known as Corporate Med. Damn, I didn’t even go to Med school, am I less than a nobody and a nothing? What does that make me,a Pigg?
Participant[quote=Navydoc]I would argue strongly that going to a top school doesn’t make you a good doctor. … We went to the University of Pittsburgh, a good second tier school. Who do you want to operate on you? The studious honors student with no clinical judgment, or the average student who concentrated on being more well rounded, and can make better decisions? …
[/quote]
UofP is not second tier. Isn’t where the most elite doctor in the America, JAMA editor in chief Catherine DeAngelis earned her degree?
JAMA Editor Calls Critic a ‘Nobody and a Nothing’
[Mar 13 2009]“Jonathan Leo, a professor of neuro-anatomy at tiny Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn., posted a letter on the Web site of the British Medical Journal this month criticizing a study that appeared in JAMA last spring. The study concerned the use of the anti-depressant Lexapro in stroke patients. In addition to identifying what he said was an important omission in the paper — that behavioral therapy worked just as well as the drug when compared head to head in the study — Leo also pointed out that the lead author had a financial relationship with Forest Laboratories, the maker of Lexapro, that was not disclosed in the study.
In a conversation with us [WSJ reporters], DeAngelis was none too happy to be questioned about the dust-up with Leo.
“This guy is a nobody and a nothing” she said of Leo. “He is trying to make a name for himself. Please call me about something important.” She added that Leo “should be spending time with his students instead of doing this.”
Leo says he received an angry call from JAMA executive deputy editor Phil Fontanarosa last week, shortly after Leo’s article was published on the BMJ Web site. “He said, ‘Who do you think you are,’ ” says Leo. “He then said, ‘You are banned from JAMA for life. You will be sorry. Your school will be sorry. Your students will be sorry.” Fontanarosa referred a call for comment to a JAMA spokeswoman, who said Leo’s retelling of the conversation was “inaccurate.” ”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/13/jama-editor-calls-critic-a-nobody-and-a-nothing/
But it gets better. Instead of making a retraction, JAMA adopted a new policy, total censorship of critics:
“As a result of the flap, JAMA says it is adopting a new policy under which anyone asserting that study authors have failed to disclose conflicts of interest should keep the matter confidential until JAMA investigates, the WSJ reports. That move is already generating controversy.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/23/jama-sets-new-policy-in-wake-of-disclosure-flap/
A policy for readers of JAMA? You cant adopt a policy for readers, only authors! Oh, wait I just read the licensing agreement on the cover page that states that reader must not object in a public forum, or be banned for life. But what do I know, I didn’t go to Harvard Med, otherwise known as Corporate Med. Damn, I didn’t even go to Med school, am I less than a nobody and a nothing? What does that make me,a Pigg?
Participant[quote=Navydoc]I would argue strongly that going to a top school doesn’t make you a good doctor. … We went to the University of Pittsburgh, a good second tier school. Who do you want to operate on you? The studious honors student with no clinical judgment, or the average student who concentrated on being more well rounded, and can make better decisions? …
[/quote]
UofP is not second tier. Isn’t where the most elite doctor in the America, JAMA editor in chief Catherine DeAngelis earned her degree?
JAMA Editor Calls Critic a ‘Nobody and a Nothing’
[Mar 13 2009]“Jonathan Leo, a professor of neuro-anatomy at tiny Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn., posted a letter on the Web site of the British Medical Journal this month criticizing a study that appeared in JAMA last spring. The study concerned the use of the anti-depressant Lexapro in stroke patients. In addition to identifying what he said was an important omission in the paper — that behavioral therapy worked just as well as the drug when compared head to head in the study — Leo also pointed out that the lead author had a financial relationship with Forest Laboratories, the maker of Lexapro, that was not disclosed in the study.
In a conversation with us [WSJ reporters], DeAngelis was none too happy to be questioned about the dust-up with Leo.
“This guy is a nobody and a nothing” she said of Leo. “He is trying to make a name for himself. Please call me about something important.” She added that Leo “should be spending time with his students instead of doing this.”
Leo says he received an angry call from JAMA executive deputy editor Phil Fontanarosa last week, shortly after Leo’s article was published on the BMJ Web site. “He said, ‘Who do you think you are,’ ” says Leo. “He then said, ‘You are banned from JAMA for life. You will be sorry. Your school will be sorry. Your students will be sorry.” Fontanarosa referred a call for comment to a JAMA spokeswoman, who said Leo’s retelling of the conversation was “inaccurate.” ”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/13/jama-editor-calls-critic-a-nobody-and-a-nothing/
But it gets better. Instead of making a retraction, JAMA adopted a new policy, total censorship of critics:
“As a result of the flap, JAMA says it is adopting a new policy under which anyone asserting that study authors have failed to disclose conflicts of interest should keep the matter confidential until JAMA investigates, the WSJ reports. That move is already generating controversy.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/23/jama-sets-new-policy-in-wake-of-disclosure-flap/
A policy for readers of JAMA? You cant adopt a policy for readers, only authors! Oh, wait I just read the licensing agreement on the cover page that states that reader must not object in a public forum, or be banned for life. But what do I know, I didn’t go to Harvard Med, otherwise known as Corporate Med. Damn, I didn’t even go to Med school, am I less than a nobody and a nothing? What does that make me,a Pigg?
Participant[quote=Navydoc]I would argue strongly that going to a top school doesn’t make you a good doctor. … We went to the University of Pittsburgh, a good second tier school. Who do you want to operate on you? The studious honors student with no clinical judgment, or the average student who concentrated on being more well rounded, and can make better decisions? …
[/quote]
UofP is not second tier. Isn’t where the most elite doctor in the America, JAMA editor in chief Catherine DeAngelis earned her degree?
JAMA Editor Calls Critic a ‘Nobody and a Nothing’
[Mar 13 2009]“Jonathan Leo, a professor of neuro-anatomy at tiny Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn., posted a letter on the Web site of the British Medical Journal this month criticizing a study that appeared in JAMA last spring. The study concerned the use of the anti-depressant Lexapro in stroke patients. In addition to identifying what he said was an important omission in the paper — that behavioral therapy worked just as well as the drug when compared head to head in the study — Leo also pointed out that the lead author had a financial relationship with Forest Laboratories, the maker of Lexapro, that was not disclosed in the study.
In a conversation with us [WSJ reporters], DeAngelis was none too happy to be questioned about the dust-up with Leo.
“This guy is a nobody and a nothing” she said of Leo. “He is trying to make a name for himself. Please call me about something important.” She added that Leo “should be spending time with his students instead of doing this.”
Leo says he received an angry call from JAMA executive deputy editor Phil Fontanarosa last week, shortly after Leo’s article was published on the BMJ Web site. “He said, ‘Who do you think you are,’ ” says Leo. “He then said, ‘You are banned from JAMA for life. You will be sorry. Your school will be sorry. Your students will be sorry.” Fontanarosa referred a call for comment to a JAMA spokeswoman, who said Leo’s retelling of the conversation was “inaccurate.” ”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/13/jama-editor-calls-critic-a-nobody-and-a-nothing/
But it gets better. Instead of making a retraction, JAMA adopted a new policy, total censorship of critics:
“As a result of the flap, JAMA says it is adopting a new policy under which anyone asserting that study authors have failed to disclose conflicts of interest should keep the matter confidential until JAMA investigates, the WSJ reports. That move is already generating controversy.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/03/23/jama-sets-new-policy-in-wake-of-disclosure-flap/
A policy for readers of JAMA? You cant adopt a policy for readers, only authors! Oh, wait I just read the licensing agreement on the cover page that states that reader must not object in a public forum, or be banned for life. But what do I know, I didn’t go to Harvard Med, otherwise known as Corporate Med. Damn, I didn’t even go to Med school, am I less than a nobody and a nothing? What does that make me,a Pigg?
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