Academic elites fill Obama's roster

Academic elites fill Obama's roster

Critics worry about insularity as Ivy League graduates crowd cabinet posts

Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one
of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its
president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School
of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a
Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel hit the trifecta: Harvard,
Cambridge and Yale Law.

All
told, of Obama's top 35 appointments so far, 22 have degrees from an
Ivy League school, MIT, Stanford, the University of Chicago or one of
the top British universities. For the other slots, the president-elect
made do with graduates of Georgetown and the Universities of Michigan,
Virginia and North Carolina.