After The Economist had gone to press, Business Week unveiled its biennial rankings in an online countdown, prolonging the agony for 30 American and ten non-American elite schools.

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Brownlee and his younger brother, Jonny - also an elite triathlete - train almost non-stop, throughout the year.

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Most of the Lunar men were from non-conformist backgrounds and so not part of an Oxbridge-educated elite.

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For non-Australians, it is important to understand the toxicity of word "elite".

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