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Everyone Who Has Ever Done Anything Cool Has Been Rejected by Harvard

Look at Warren Buffett now!

Warren Buffett was turned down cold. So was Harold Varmus, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, and Meredith Vieira, and Tom Brokaw, and Columbia University president Lee Bollinger, and God knows what other geniuses of the future. Today's WSJ feature on the university's rejects begs the question: Is Harvard stupid? [WSJ]

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