The Berkshire Hathaway meeting's expected all-time record attendance, which is bound to do wonders for Omaha's economy over the very short run, is a far cry from the puny 12 people ("including my relatives, " Buffett told Forbes) that didn't even fill a small room back in 1982, in the days before Buffett became widely known as the Sage of Omaha.
"The standards are so high now and she's missing instructional time, " the attendance specialist urges while working her way through a list of chronically absent students.