THE SPINE NOVEMBER 13, 2006
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I've always wondered in what field President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has his Ph.D. Maybe you did, too. In any case, an article in Saturday's Guardian tells us that he received his doctorate in traffic management. It also tells us that traffic is a terrible mess in Tehran. (In which big city is it not?)
In Tehran the problems are multiple, including simply poor driving mores, disrespect for rules, dilapidated cars, et cetera. Pedestrians add to the chaos. Maybe Ahmadinejad will devout his energy to this pedestrian matter and leave the world alone.
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Oh yes. And you, Mr. Peretz, live in a "democracy" in which only very well "educated" men (admited and graduated in Yale after their own extraordinary academic merits) can reach power. Of course, what you mean is not elitism. You are a republican "meritocrat". Of the kind that existed in Rome, in which rank was everything. Aren't you ashamed of it?
- luispc
November 13, 2006 at 2:40am
I fail to see the connection between Peretz' topic in his post "DOCTOR GRIDLOCK" and Luis' comment about the nature of American governance. But then I often have trouble seeing a connection between Luis fanciful replies and the topic at hand. For the record American "meritocracy" doesn't mean that one must graduate from an Ivy League college to reach the Presidency. I am not even sure you have to be a college graduate to become President. Was Lincoln a college graduate? And where did Truman go to college, or Eisenhauer? Closer to out time out peanut farmer President Carter didn't attend an Ivy League college, neither. Ability is not the same as formal education and our recent history with the Bushes and the Clintons attending Yale is unusual.
- jacksondyer
November 13, 2006 at 5:58am