Harvard Beats Yale

Noam has a good article in TNR on how Harvard and Yale shaped Obama and Clinton, respectively, in their presidential style.

Clinton spent his first two-and-a-half months in law school more or less out of law school, working as an operative for a liberal U.S. Senate candidate. When the campaign ended, he threw himself at the mercy of the first sympathetic classmate he could find, a woman named Nancy Bekavac. Maraniss recounts the exchange:

"Hi, I'm Bill Clinton. Can I borrow your notes?"

"For what?"

"For everything."

"Are you in our class?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Well, where the hell've you been? We've been here since September!"