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United States | Survivor: Ivy League edition

How has one Ivy League university avoided the president’s wrath?

Sensible policies help—so does savvy politicking

|WASHINGTON, DC

There are all kinds of perks to being the boss, big and small. As George H.W. Bush once said: “I’m president of the United States. And I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!” To be the boss of an Ivy League institution, with its ample salary and cachet, would have seemed a crowning achievement for the aspiring meritocrats of America not long ago. Indeed, in the 20th century, two Ivy League presidents ascended to the White House (Woodrow Wilson led Princeton University and Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded Columbia University after winning the second world war).

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