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...Besides her politics, the Minister's past as a working woman resonates with the increasingly disgruntled middle class. With only a high school diploma, Siguršardóttir began her career as a flight attendant and later worked in the office of a box factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland Picks the World's First Openly Gay PM | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...news that the job posting had been sent over a Harvard e-mail list quickly made the rounds on celebrity blogs. Joanna Douglas, a columnist for a Yahoo.com entertainment Web site, questioned whether such a job calls for a Harvard diploma...

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Johnston, Levi •oil field job is quit by after questions are raised about eligibility of to participate in an electrical apprenticeship program without high school diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...does the intellect assured by an Ivy League diploma grant its bearer a sufficient title to rule? Is political virtue equivalent to the type of knowledge and intellectual agility required for success at places like Harvard? The point, pace the politically ambitious set at Harvard, remains far from certain...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Rule of the Wise | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...something of an alcoholic, though he might be loathe to use that particular term. His ability to consume beer in impossibly large quantities had been well established at Yale. ("MacDonald, perhaps you could trade this for a six-pack?" one of his instructors had quipped when handing him a diploma.) Recalling his college days, MacDonald writes, "I had fun. Loads of it. And not the kind of fun people look back on ten years later and regret. I didn't hurt anybody. I didn't steal anything. I didn't wreck any cars. It was a good time, plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Story of Self-Induced Starvation | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

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