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A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement and, probably, income luckiest in their educational and career opportunities and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate - these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.

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Ben Bernanke
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 13
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