This past week, a Chinese father was reamed by the internet for a video he posted of his three-year-old son being forced to exercise half-naked on the snowy streets of New York City last month. Nanjing businessman He Liesheng vigorously defended himself in a long interview with The Daily Mail today, drawing a bizarre parallel with the U.S. troops sent to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year: "Those troops were specially trained—they were the elite. In the same way, I believe the way I am raising my son will make him special and better than everyone else."
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Chinese Dad Defends Making Nearly-Naked 3-Year-Old Exercise On Snowy NYC Street
Is Eli Manning Elite Enough For The Hall Of Fame?
With the euphoria of the Super Bowl finally wearing off, football fans, bloggers, reporters and caricaturists all have to face the fact that there are over 200 hundred days until the next season starts. Which means football fans have nothing better to do for the next 208 days than debate statistical/nerdgasm questions back and forth. Which is how we got to a point where everyone and their mother is asking: has Eli Manning now booked himself a one-way-ticket to the NFL Hall Of Fame?
Elite Horse Competition Will Slum It In Brooklyn
You know what "edgy" Brooklyn needs? Rich people who ride pretty horses at exclusive champagne-fueled events. Fortunately, the Gucci Masters horse-jumping competition is coming to the Barclays Center in 2013, and organizers are using the opportunity to trot out as many trite Brooklyn cliches they can think of.
City's Elite High Schools Admit Fewer Blacks, Hispanics
According to the results of the city’s admissions process for the seven specialized, elite high schools, the vast majority of those admitted were either white or asian. Only four percent of students admitted were black and six percent were hispanic, while 30 percent were asian and 35 percent were white; having said that, the ethnicity of nearly one-quarter of admitted students was not known, because they were multiracial, coming from private school or were not identified, so it may not be quite as dire as it seems.
Prom Night for the Privileged
Life imitates Gossip Girl tonight as the teens from six of the city's most elite private schools join together for a prom in the Waldorf's Starlight Roof (the Waldorf ballroom is where public high school Stuyvesant's prom will be this Friday -- ground floor for the plebes!).
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