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Originally Posted by Gavin
...Yale is an important university for politics, so to have one of the world's most famous and influential ex-politicans on its books teaching, is a real coup for them.
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Tony is in distinguished company:
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...the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, journalist Sir Alistair Cooke and stateswoman Indira Gandhi.
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This is an investment - having "big names" giving a few seminars costs a bit of money, but brings in much more for the university. Remember, many US universities do not rely on handouts from the government, unlike the situation in the UK.