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apples and oranges (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:22 PM Original message |
Your thoughts on the student who scammed Harvard? |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. Got to respect Madoff and Wall Street then |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. This kid sounds like a future leader of the young republicans |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. +100 |
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BonnieJW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
21. Another Frank Luntz |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. Every few years somebody pulls this shit off |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #3 |
31. yeah...this guy doesn't even seem as smooth as the last |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. A young man without a single ethical thought. Wants all the rewards without any of the work. |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I see political office in his future... he sounds like a perfect candidate. n/t |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
5. I would think the "perfect score of 1600 on the SAT" would have given him away... |
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Solomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 06:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
36. Ha! Apparently you don't realize there's tons of 1600s out there. |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
8. I say give him an honorary degree |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. Maybe he can get together with celebrated con artist Esther Reed, |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. If he had tricked his way into Harvard and then buckled down and worked hard |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
11. If he'd actually put that much work into doing it legally/morally, I'd respect him. |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 03:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
28. I tend to agree with you. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
12. My first reaction is I'm glad harvard got conned... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. Hard to summon much outrage. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
14. Sociopath who puts effort into the scam instead of into the actual work. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:42 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I knew someone who did that. They spent more teffort finding ways to avoid work and |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
15. Cheaters truly do prosper in college. He's from Exeter, he must be smart! Them's that has, gets. nt |
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Tutankhamun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
16. If he was smart enough to con his way in, he should have been |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. He's a product of our society. Just doing what he sees being rewarded |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
19. My first thought? I bet Goldman Sachs or somebody is scouting him. |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
20. Ummm, he bilked the government and other organizations of thousands of dollars in scholarships |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
22. Well he didn't get away with it BUT |
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historian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
23. hey if primate bush got in |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
24. I think he'll one day be AG in Connecticut |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
25. On second thought, he should of just faked having a rich dad |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
26. Only the Rich get away with being sociopathic compulsive liars. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. The last two years have given us ample evidence of what disasters are wrought ... |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
29. Petty thief with half a brain. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
30. Goldman Sachs wil hire him. They need some men of his "caliber" to lie before Congress n/t |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
32. You gotta have a lot of nerve to think you can survive at Harvard |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 11:53 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. This guy got to his senior year there |
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apples and oranges (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 06:25 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. If I had the nerve to do something like that (which I don't and never would) |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 07:21 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Sounds like he got cocky |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
33. I wish I owned the movie rights. n/t |
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