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    "title": "A Plague of \u2018A\u2019 Students",
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    "created": "2010-04-27 12:49:36 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>America has made the mistake of letting the A student run things. It was A students who briefly took over the business world during the period of derivatives, credit swaps, and collateralized debt obligations. We\u00e2\u0080\u0099re still reeling from the effects. This is why good businessmen have always adhered to the maxim: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA students work for B students.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Or, as a businessman friend of mine put it, \u00e2\u0080\u009cB students work for C students--A students teach.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>It was a bunch of A students at the Defense Department who planned the syllabus for the Iraq war, and to hell with what happened to the Iraqi Class of \u00e2\u0080\u009903 after they\u00e2\u0080\u0099d graduated from Shock and Awe.</p>\n<p>The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.</p>\n<p>Now there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s health care reform--just the kind of thing that would earn an A on a term paper from that twerp of a grad student who teaches Econ 101.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://weeklystandard.com/articles/plague-%E2%80%98a%E2%80%99-students\">A Plague of \u00e2\u0080\u0098A\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Students | The Weekly Standard</a></em>.</p>\n"
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