By John TierneyThe New York Times
"... Spend enough time as a page, and you can easily believe it’s not what you know, it’s who you know — and whom you flatter. Granted, toadying can be a useful skill in most lines of work. But it’s not a lesson teenagers need to study for a whole semester, especially when it’s being taught in text messages from a lord on Capitol Hill...."
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