How America Really Does Rule the World

Yale-educated Tansu Ciller was named Prime Minister of Turkey last week, and Masako Owada, the new Japanese princess, went to Harvard. As the list below suggests, so many members of foreign political elites have studied here that their ministries must sometimes resemble an American dorm.

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