Well talking about harvard, I saw documentry about it few years back where this english grad. was busy making porn and others got busted in drug ring etc etc. A recent case of plagarism from this 19 yrs. old indian origin lady is still fresh in my mind.These ivy league colleges grades system were inflated anyway ( read in USA TODAY few years back) where there were no policy of giving student C as it reflected negative impact on their images. I don't know how they have changed now but one thing is sure in my mind- nobody impress me where they graduated from. All I want to see is action (+ve one) and their positive impact in people lives. One thing about this thread and I guess there was one recently another, so called intellectuals dearly missed to address problem in context of nepal as they try to rationalize their action based on what they learn in foriegn countries. Look at this nobel winner Mohamad Yunus, I thought he was brilliant to realize what works and not. Talking about polictics, this ticket system really baffles me, why do you need approval from central office if he/she is electable(popular) by people? well politics or democracy is not even clean in USA, why bother to analyze poor countries?