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Money drives the culture. Television has recently hit on the old successful formula of big-money quiz shows. The new ones give away millions to people who know which Presidents' faces appear on different dollar bills. (The most candid of these shows is called Greed.) The likable and funny fellow who is host of Win Ben Stein's Money may turn out to be the symbolic spokesperson of the age. He challenges contestants to match his wealth of information and simultaneously implies that education for its own sake is preposterous. If you're so smart--Stein asks merely by existing...
Take the test of the century--100 questions based on the events of the past 100 years, as covered in the pages of TIME [ANSWERS ON LAST PAGE OF QUIZ...
...years ago, the richest man in the world was...?" McCain asked, springing a pop quiz and calling on George Stephanopoulos, the former Clinton wunderkind and now ABC commentator, who couldn't answer. Sultan of Brunei, McCain said, going on to make his point that three of the five richest men in the world now live near Seattle, and the new millennium presents challenges and opportunities no one imagined. And then, with schoolboy delight, he called out, "Stephanopoulos flunked the quiz...
...call on Monday night: "Rich, could you come to The Crimson for a few minutes: we have a special project for you." My mission, which I chose to accept, was to create a sidebar for last week's consulting/investment banking scrutiny. The piece was meant to be a small quiz to help recruits discover the profession they were most suited for. Comfortable in my abilities to lampoon what some consider the most morally defunct of career professionals--intellectual whores, if you will--I set out for home...
...What's the worst grade you've ever gotten at Harvard (on a test, quiz, prob. set, course...