Now, I’ve known only two Rhodes Scholars in my time (at least that I can think of offhand), and neither particularly well, but doesn’t Andrew Sullivan appear to be overgeneralizing a wee bit, in his haste to attack Wesley Clark, when he says that “[a]lmost to a man and woman, they [Rhodes Scholars] are mega-losers, curriculum-vitae fetishists, with huge ambition and no concept of what to do with it.”
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The Perfumed Prince Report – 09/21/2003
This report will now be more than the original once a week I originally planned it. The large amount of material in the blogosphere and elsewhere that continues to pop up would make the report unwieldy. The premiere edition of…
The new rabbinic intern in our synagogue is a Rhodes Scholar.
The best quote I ever heard about Rhodes alumni was that they took their scholarship as license to predicate every sentence on it – e.g. “As a Rhodes Scholar, I think it will rain today.”