By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.comOn a quintessential American holiday, Thomas Friedman of the
New York Times wrote of a now quintessential American problem, our decline in global competition.
The emphasis was academics. How half of the winners of Rhodes Scholarships, America's top grads, either were from other countries or the offspring of recent immigrants, students with last names such as Kang, Tauqeer, Alekeyeva and Nadathur.
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