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Cutline (often incorrectly called a caption) to an illustration by Arnold Roth accompanying Gladwell’s piece on Harvard admission requirements:

In the élite-education business, you are whom you admit, and when Harvard changed whom it admitted, it changed Harvard.

Only in the New Yorker. Is that even English?

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