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...physics, and even history, English, and theology—the yawning prospective-wealth chasm became impossible for many to ignore. Even for a few of those most deeply committed to other, more public-spirited pursuits—whether in laboratories, classrooms, poor neighborhoods, charter schools, the media, or state legislatures??the lure of such rewards, especially as they are reasonably attainable for people of such high abilities, became hard to resist. Most Rhodes Scholars who don’t have a passion for the most remunerative careers (when one cannot fairly quarrel) still do resist, but they tell...
...Sometimes these protectionist clauses are not included in the original bills sent by executives to a country’s legislatures??and yet they creep in, in the form of amendments and edits. In America, for instance, the incoming Obama administration was so keen on passing the ARRA around Valentine’s Day that the final version of the bill got passed in PDF format; not all legislators had a final version of the 700-page document they were passing, which, as it turns out, will help create a federal deficit this year that would...
...medieval England from plague prevention techniques. Every few years, the citizens of certain locales would determine the most dangerous politician and exile them for a few years to an isolated building—in England “Parliament” and in the colonies “legislatures??—in a remote location where politicians couldn’t hurt society and would survive off government pensions supplemented by periodic begging for funds. However, despite these 13 leper-colony-like areas, America couldn’t successfully control its political problem, which...