Hi, S,
With all due respect to Harvard and its students and alumni, do you HONESTLY think Harvard can defensibly be titled "No. 1 University in America" and not get strong and strongly valid counter arguments and counter proposals?
I know a few Yalies (including some Heads of State) who'd take strong exception to that statement, if they had to choose at all in a mixed heterogeneous population. In most cases, they will demur and officially state that the best school is the one that best matches the skills, talents, and personality of the student.
Oh, wait a minute; that's a copout.
Sorry, no it's not - remember the Lange vs Patek wars?
uh, huh. Salman, you've been around here long enough to know where this headed, fast, don't you?
;-)
Now about those Ferrari statements, I'm reminded of something a good friend who's been a long time Purist and who's worked closely with me editorially once tole me - "The first one to use Hitler as an example or to make a point, loses."
EVERY Ferrari, Salman? Really?
That's about as ridiculous a statement as the other one heard, "EVERY Lamborghini..."
See why now?
Not to be deliberately confusing or play mind games or word games here, S, but I'm reminded of something my father taught me a long time ago - "Even when your mother is wrong, she's right."
And it took me a long time to understand the wisdom of those words - it not only has to do with some abstract of "truth" and universal "fact" but also flial piety, the uncertainty of human knowledge, the vagaries of fate and the universe, and the fact that some things are as important, maybe more important, than being "right."