In the movie A Civil Action, Sidney Pollak, playing the role  of  an older Harvard Law grad, represents a corporate polluter, and invites John Travolta, the young  lawyer representing the cancer stricken  residents of a town outside of Boston where the company's chemicals were dumped, to meet at the Harvard Club in New York.  Travolta shows up, and immediately starts talking about settlement terms.  Pollak tells him- surely , as a Harvard man, he would know that formal business is never discussed  at the Club. Travolta responds- sorry for that, but I didn't go to Harvard.  Pollak , surprised, asks, where did you go? Travolta answers: Cornell. Pollak looks at him, and  in a voice dripping with disdain, replies: ah, Cornell, fine school. The funniest political satirist in America is Iowahawk. Here is his second take on "the Harvard problem", as related to the nomination of Elena Kagan;and the original on Henry Louis...(Read Full Post)