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The "poor little rich girl" angle just gets better.

There's a backstory to it that I won't go into. But... er, yeah.

Who needs fiction when you've got real life?

The remarkable thing about that Guardian article, in my view, is that the author uses "college" for "university" throughout -- which is not British usage. I'm a little surprised the editor let it stand, especially when British newspapers are not above changing words in actual quotes to reflect British usage. Of course, that was the Sun.

This is a classic example (much argued about here at AI) that the best estate tax is the incredibly idiotic kids that the super-rich raise.

Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations.

Oh, I'll gladly accept $20,000 for the privilege of studying my chosen field at a top-ranked university, while not having to suffer through classes or pay tuition!! Any offers?

The only thing Laurie did wrong was not haggling the price down. Twenty grand?

And where does the worker bee get off snitching like this? Outrageous! So that's two things wrong: shoulda had a confidentiality agreement in there as well. Live and learn.

Doesn't this college have final exams? Or did Martinez take the tests for Paige, too?

Now, I'm old-fashioned. I thought the main value of a college education was in what you learned, not that piece of paper you get at the end. (And you can get a similar piece of paper off the internet for much, much less than $20K, although it won't say "USC".)

OTOH, to Paige, maybe the main value of college was that it kept up the cash flow from her parents for a few more years. I knew rather too many classmates like that, not that any of them were being subsidized lavishly enough to pay $5K for someone else to take their classes. Um, actually I was somewhat like that. Had to drop out and work at near-minimum wage for a while until I got serious...

It's an argument for NOT paying for your kid's college education, at least not straight out of high school. Make them flip burgers until they really, really want to go to college and learn something useful for employment.

paige's parents contributed some $25,000,000 for the construction of the university of missouri's new basketball arena, which they then named after their sports marketing firm, which was named after paige. ergo, the "paige sports arena" was born.

as of last weekend, that arena was renamed the "mizzou arena." looks like the outrage market devalued the price of arena names from $25,000,000 to $0. of course, this does tell you something about the kind of household ms. laurie grew up in--the kind of household that would spend 25 million on a sports arena.

Apparently the "worker bee" snitched because Paige asked her to do a paper in a hurry, and there were some formatting errors in it. She called the worker bee, who said she had sent her the computer file, so she could just change it herself, and Paige went into an obscenity-laced tirade to the worker bee. Said worker bee was so angry that she blew the whistle.

That, at least, is the story on Kansas City talk radio.

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