The situation reminds me of something Professor John Whitney once said to our Columbia Business School class.

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White graduated first in her law school class at Columbia University in 1974.

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Teaching the class at Columbia created a strong incentive to do so, and this year I had the benefit of having Jeff Perkowski, my nephew who is a senior at University of Virginia, in Beijing on an internship.

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The last mission was in 2011, thirty years after Columbia -- the first of the class -- made its maiden voyage.

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Tracey Ann Jacobson, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Kosovo.

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"(It) will be very long on policy and will be a great plan, with a major reduction in taxes for the middle class, " Trump said at a town hall meeting in Columbia, South Carolina, at the University of South Carolina.

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At the Columbia Business School's EMBA program, more than 20 percent of each class comes from outside the United States.

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On a recent evening after leaving a class on public management at the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, I hopped onto a downtown-bound 1 train and transferred to the 7 express train to Queens.

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