Coontz quotes the president of Radcliffe suggesting that if a Radcliffe graduate was really lucky she might end up marrying a Harvard man.

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Lawrence Katz, a prominent Harvard labour economist was, for a while, chief economist at the Labour Department under Robert Reich, another Harvard man.

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As a Harvard man, he did not wish to sound mawkish, but nor did he want to upset some of his most devoted supporters.

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Mr Brown is a more natural and skilled politician, and has sought to portray his rival as a Harvard snob and himself as a man of the people.

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This is a man who was the President of Harvard Law Review -- he could have done anything.

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And what better way to do that than by sharing a frosty beer with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the man who put Gates in handcuffs, Jim Crowley?

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