If an employer sexually harasses one of his young workers, then SHE is to blame?

Regardless of what any one has to say about the current President, I will never forget that man wagging his finger at me and the American people, and LYING, as if we were the contemptuous ones.

Fair enough. My point is that the MSc is not, as you acknowledge, equivalent to an American MA/MS degree. Indeed, it would be rather odd to get a masters degree to qualify to study for a master's degree in the American context.

That's not to demean Lewinsky's study. LSE is a fine school, although I know nothing about the social psychology program. I just wished to indicate that the ooh-ing and aah-ing is rather misplaced.

British Masters degrees (except the MPhil, which tends to be a 2 year PhD halfway-house) are almost invariably 1 year long and there pretty much isn't an equivalent of the all-singing, all-dancing two year MAs that are offered by the top US universities (the closest is probably the Oxford IR MPhil).

Speaking as a Brit student, it seems to me pretty obvious that the US version is superior, though it takes twice as long and costs many times as much money unless one gets a scholarship (although a US Masters is undoubtedly generally superior to a British one, especially at a top univeristy, without a pretty hefty scolarship it's highly debateable whether it's thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars worth of superior). On the other hand, a lot of US students are quite happy to come to Britain to do Masters work and a lot of them don't seem to suffer too much upon their return. For example, there are quite a few members of the US defence community and military acadaemia who have a 1 year MA from the Department of War Studies at King's College, London and who have then gone on to do a US or British PhD, or simply gone home and carried on up the career ladder and it doesn't seem to have had a negative impacy on their career relative to their home-trained counterparts.

As for Ms Lewinsky, I'd be more impressed if she'd spent 2 years at SAIS or Georgetown, but even so not being as thick as a plank is generally considered to be a prerequisite for Masters work at LSE.

James - I might be misconstruing what you're saying here, but the fact that a Masters degree is seen as qualifying someone for MPhil/PhD research does not make it "pre-Masters remedial work".

The woman will always be remembered for one thing, no matter how educated and smart she becomes.

Yes, well, the real question here is whether not she qualifies for a fellowship at the Hoover institute.

Don’t blow any opportunities, just suck it up and move on.

I think it's an excellent choice of words!

Poor choice of words!