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And more on the JUST the connection of Anna Deavere Smith, the University of Penn and the RATS:

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Okay...I'm just gonna stop. I think I may take the blue pill and go back into a blissful ignorance of illusion...

I did a little more connecting, taking the President of University of Chicago, Robert Zimmer, and the President of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann and it led me to the page of the Coucil on Competitiveness.

Reading on that website took me to this article, President Obama Taps Council Leaders to Advise on Science and Technology

In a historic speech at the National Academy of Sciences Monday, April 27, President Obama named two Council on Competitiveness members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and announced his support for increased investment in scientific research, a key policy that has enjoyed strong and consistent support from the CEOs, university presidents and labor union leaders who comprise the Council.

Now THERE is a triumvirate! CEOs, University Presidents and Labor Union Leaders!