Politicians usually become infatuated with Hollywood only when they have to disguise failed policies with star power: the decline of the Clinton presidency can be dated from the time when the celebrities started outnumbering the Ivy League professors at White House dinners.

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Austin, a successful, Ivy-League-educated screenwriter is house-sitting for his mother.

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But with oblivion looming in the November elections, the White House and its allies have decided that the non-Ivy-League-educated rabble--i.e.

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Yet, when I left my abusive ex-husband -- an Ivy League Wall Street trader who kept three loaded guns in our house -- I had no one to accompany me to family court to get my temporary restraining order made permanent, and no one to help me begin divorce proceedings.

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He was all-Ivy and Phi Beta Kappa, worked in Washington briefly, was in the Nixon White House, a Harvard MBA. Then joined Goldman Sachs in 1974 in Chicago.

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