Ellis Weiner

If, like most Americans, you think an Ivy League diploma paves the way to Nobel Prizes, Wall Street riches, and a life of prosperity and happiness, think again. Consider these distinguished alumni: John Fairbanks (Dartmouth AB, 1946), embezzler Amy Bishop (Harvard Ph.D., 1993), mass murderer Eliot Spitzer (Princeton BA, 1981; Harvard JD, 1984), disgraced NY governor and patron of prostitutes...