Debating education has always been an American pastime, and choosing the "best colleges" a lucrative business, as U.S. News and World Report has well understood.

对教育相关话题进行辩论一直是美国人的消遣方式之一，《美国新闻》和《世界报道》等媒体都十分清楚，推选“最佳高校”绝对是个有利可图的生意。

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Major General Robert Scales, a retired commandant of the US Army War College, argues that the passage of large numbers of the best and brightest Egyptian officers through American war colleges has suffused the army with American values.

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As many of the best and brightest students in the world are studying at American colleges and universities, we must take this as an opportunity to make a long-term investment in the top talent we are educating.

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