A Hundred Points of Light
02138, which won the Pulitzer Prize last year for intrepid journalism in the Field of Writing About Harvard, has just released its second annual list of Harvard's 100 most influential alumni. Can you name all twelve women? (Hint: don't forget Benazir Bhutto.)
Like all lists of this sort, it comes packaged with a poorly edited preface full of stilted phrases ("in the catbrid seat"), inane platitudes ("With so much at stake in the coming year, there's a lot to influence"), and a groping desperation to say something meaningful about what is basically a self-satisfied exercise in name-dropping ("The Supreme Court has shifted ideologically, and the struggle for creating and undoing precedents is fierce.")
The usual suspects are to be found on the list -- financiers (Lloyd Blankfein, Stephen Schwartzman, Henry Paulson), media-barons (Jared Kushner, Mortimer Zuckerman, Sumner Redstone, Jeff Zucker), like a million politicians, and pretty much the entire Supreme Court. And there are a few Harvard is probably not so thrilled about (George Bush, Alberto Gonzales).
Other choices are just baffling -- Frank Rich, really? B.J. Novak? And didn't Bill Gates drop out? But most of all, is Al Gore in fact the most influential Harvard grad today? There's just something sad about that. Discuss amongst yourselves.
After the jump: the list in full.
Al Gore
George W. Bush
Anthony Kennedy
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Bill Gates
W. Mitt Romney
Michael Bloomberg
John Roberts
Ben Bernanke
Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
Lloyd Blankfein
Stephen Schwartzman
Jeffrey Immelt
Henry Paulson
Meg Whitman
James Dimon
Judah Folkman
Bruce Kovner
Steven Ballmer
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Bill O'Reilly
Charles Schumer
Edward Kennedy
Jill Abramson
Antonin Scalia
Mark Zuckerberg
Stanley O'Neal
Sumner Redstone
Jeff Zucker
James Murdoch
L. Doerr
Conan O'Brien
Eliot Spitzer
Kenneth Chenault
David Javerbaum
Frank Rich
Anne Sweeney
Jeffrey Sachs
Stephen Breyer
George Daley
Gregory Daniels
BJ Novak
Carl Levin
Deval Patrick
Debra Lee
Lawrence Summers
Andrew Sullivan
Martin Peretz
James Cramer
Thom Mayne
Barney Frank
Arata Kochi
Frank Gehry
Timothy Draper
Clive Davis
Benazir Bhutto
Mortimer Zuckerman
Matt Damon
Ma Ying-Jeou
Paul Ridker
Robert Zoellick
Tommy Jones
Richard Posner
Nicholas Kristof
H.H. Aga Khan
Russ Feingold
G. Wagoner
Joan Steitz
Amory Lovins
Michael Chertoff
Jared Kushner
Alberto Gonzales
Lou Dobbs
W. James McNerney Jr.
Ray Dalio
Kenneth Griffin
William Ackman
Bruce Wasserstein
Ban Ki-Moon
Jeffrey Kindler
David Souter
Michael Schur
Ryan Koh
Christopher Cox
Craig Mello
Nancy Barry
Zeil Degrasse Tyson
Tim Kaine
Lee Hsien Loong
Donald Tsang
Richard Stallman



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September 19th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Looking over this list I cannot help but think that the world would be a better place if these sycophants, sophists, and schmucks did not exist.
Thank you, Harvard. You make the world suck more.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Now, I know that list isn’t in order, right? MicheLle fucking Obama?!!! AAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHA. Harvard, you are so pathetic.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Oh come on - shes Vice President for Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Hospitals - a very important position for our nation - a position Harvard students today are in no doubt eagerly seeking.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Check out that deep penetrating steeley gaze he’s rockin’. He looks like a rapist. Harvard’s lame.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
He’s SO FAT!! Poor guy.
November 28th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I thought George Bush went to Yale?
November 28th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Harvard Business, you idiot blonde bimbo.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 am
А вы не пробывали зарабатывать в интернете?