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Affirmative Action for Lazy, Bored Rich Kids

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

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The Consequences of Going to Harvard

"I discovered that they weren't these rich kids, they weren't committed to the studies," he says. "They didn't devote themselves to them, and they didn't want to be there." Harvard's admissions policy clashed with its admission policy for children of the rich, she says. The elite educational institutions are mostly about elite and only very secondarily about education, Nussbaum adds.

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