I only have one question: is this a legacy admission?

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From the WSJ:
Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday's New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa.
Good thing the problem with student visas was "fixed" after 9-11. Can anyone answer me why this

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[jelly_doughnut]

The student in row two is not Baghdad Bob, I tell you it is not.

[reality_hammer]

lol

There are no Iraqi students here! Only brave defenders of affirmative action!

[supedujour]

Wait till my boss sees this.

[reality_hammer]

I wonder if he's getting student loans?

[supedujour]

If he's getting anything supported by the Yale Alumni Association, it's going to get ugly.

[blindman738]

Are you still sure you want a government bureaucracy in charge of the ports?

Yes, just a competent one. And this government bureaucracy makes the Keystone Cops (you're old enough like me to at least know what that is) look like a first rate group. Nice try, but abolition of government ain't happening in your life time.

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just a competent one

That's the rub. Bureaucracies do not breed competence.

abolition of government ain't happening in your life time

That's not something I wish for.

[blindman738]

Bureaucracies do not breed competence.

Because you keep voting for incompetence. The wealthy, well-to-dos only THINK they are competent. They are woefully out of touch. Obtaining wealth is not the be all, end all of life and unfortunately that is what they think.

[reality_hammer]

I've never voted for anyone in the bureaucracy. They breed outside the electoral process.

Speaking of wealthy, can you name a candidate from either major party (say in the past 50 years) who hasn't been wealthy at the time they ran for office?