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I'll take your sophomoric admonishment and laughable blackmail comment for what they're worth.

Good luck my friend.

I appreciate all of the engagement. I appreciate free speech. And I appreciate your selective amnesia, too, A.Banker. Its clear that Revolution has made his decision. His commentary is NOT intended to be an opinion. Its not meant to be a Tourette's-like stream of conscientiousness critique. Its meant to be demeaning. Condescending. Attention getting. Hateful. Insulting. I appreciate the creative fictions being set forth to defend it. I don't believe in fairy tales. I believe in accountability. Especially for those who take it beyond a robust and bawdy debate to the point of being malicious and demeaning. Morals clause? Offers have been rescinded for lesser examples of demeaning and malicious behavior. His comments today went too far. I found them to be demeaning to many on this board. I have received PMs confirming this. Especially from several of the women on this post. Since he's decided to publicly air them -continuously- in such a demeaning manner, then he should be willing to defend them. Sunshine is a good thing. We all have our own standards of accountability, integrity and justice. Thanks for sharing your standards, A.Banker. BTW, they look pretty ugly...I guess we'll agree to disagree on this one. And hlove, the fact that he's insulting all of us instead of any one of us is a distinction without a difference...but I do appreciate your other points. And thanks folks for all of your PMs of support.

Its clear that you crave attention, chief. If you have a scintilla of thought about attending SAIS and accepting their gracious offer of funding, then start treating the school and its students with respect and consideration. You'll receive the same. You have the key to your own cell. Use it wisely, please...

Do you mind if I share your above-stated thoughts with the administration while I'm at SAIS? I'm sure they'll remember your phone call last week. Even though you haven't accepted your admission and financial aid offer, the repeated demonstrations on this website of your complete lack of any redeeming moral or intellectual character as well as your disturbed sense of entitlement will certainly trigger the morals clause in your offer. Don't bother to answer my question. I think we've all heard enough of your narcissistic commentary. If I were you, I wouldn't bother to visit. It came to me in a dream one night that you might not like your official reception...

At SAIS DC today. I am attending classes. PM me if you have any questions. I'll be here for another day.

At SAIS DC today. I am attending classes. PM me if you have any questions. I'll be here for another day.

Good luck in Bologna. See you in DC!

Five years out of school, the only thing people will recognize is what you did last year or what you're working on now. For entry level jobs, it may be another story but I am interested in public service employment and SAIS is well recognized in that arena. If you can, I would choose SAIS over UT. I turned down Harvard and Georgetown to attend SAIS and I'm willing to go into debt, with my eyes open, to do so. In the US, 10 years of public service employment will erase your student loan debt.

I am currently attending a top twenty (as in top twenty in the world) graduate school in diplomacy and international commerce (with special permission as an undergrad senior) and ALL three of my professors (former ambassador, former charge d'affairs in Iran during the embassy takeover, and former FBI CTC SA) recommended SAIS as THE best. They all said: "Go to SAIS." My American Foreign Policy professor said the same. I worked in the Senate and my boss (28 years in the Senate, a Harvard grad and former or present chairman of every key/important committee in the Senate) and his foreign affairs/defense staffer (I/R MA from Yale, regional studies AM from Harvard, former state dept. officer), who I reported to, both said "SAIS is the best." SAIS is not well known at Wal-Mart or along the Promenade de la Croisette in Cannes but amongst the pros, its considered the best. I've made my decision. I'm going to SAIS, albeit in DC.

My pleasure...

How's my line working out?

I always suspected that he had a dysfunctioning salivary gland..."Mad Dog" would have been a much better nom de guerre for him.

I think the women at SAIS are smarter, more accomplished and have kinder hearts...

Revolution at the MBA Buffet...awesome!

Revolution reminds me of a guy I knew who was interested in buying a Harley. He'd never ridden a bike before. He went down to the Harley dealer and bought a bunch of Harley clothes. Harley jeans, chaps, beater, T shirts...because he wanted to determine if he liked the Harley life style before he bought a Harley.

I think its time to vote Revolution off the island...unless he'd like to discuss international studies which is what brought most of us to SAIS (School of Advanced International Studies ). SAIS doesn't offer an MBA nor does it offer a buffet of retail broker fantasies...

This must be the morning of grand generalizations...I'm sure that no one would ever accuse a mid-career professional who decides return to school of being in the "process of trying to find themselves...," especially one who still hasn't decided which school to attend. Just sayin'...

Whoa, there. I believe the attack was the other way around. I was defending the practice from those who would make a similar attack. The practice of law isn't for everyone, especially the thin skinned. Drafting commercial agreements is like watching paint dry to some. Handling homicide defense is another story...

I didn't get that impression. I think Georgetown is harder to get into than SAIS. SAIS has always been my first choice.

I wouldn't pretend that at all. There's really no lawyer that can compare to the nobility of Jeff Skilling, Raj Rajaratnam or Bernie Maadoff. Law School gives you a broader set of tools and you get a doctorate, too, which allows you to park at hospitals in zones marked "doctors only."

SAIS grads have more options and are cross trained in more areas. If G'town gave me money, I would go there. I want to have more options and SAIS gives you a broader perspective. Georgetown doesn't have the international economics concentration that is required at SAIS. I'm not an economics guy but at the same time I know that if you don't have an economics background there's always going to be something missing in your analysis and your abilities in the international arena. I was granted permission at my undergrad university to take classes, in my senior year, at their diplomacy grad school. Its top twenty. My professors, who were former high ranking foreign service officers and ambassadors, while chiding me for not going to their school, wrote my recommendations for grad school and unanimously said, "Go to SAIS."

Law School teaches a skill set. I was adverse to law school but then I've come to realize that many go there who don't plan to practice -they want to pick up the skill set. I think that when you stand up for someone's liberty and put a jury in a box, you take real risks. Isn't liberty the most precious thing we have? I can see how you think that raw capital rubbing up against raw resources is a risky business. You can lose...uhh... money, right? Seriously, Revolution...I think you will mesh better at a B school, too. It seems to me though that you're taking a long time to make a basic decision that should have been gamed before you applied. Your present analysis seems more geared to hedonistic pursuits than professional pursuits. Five years into the business and nobody cares where you went to school. They just care about the last quarter...