<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Elite Personified]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>by Conor Friedersdorf</em></span></p> <p>Meet Susan Nagel, the young woman who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/fashion/26DCDEB.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=fashion" target="_blank">has it all</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Miss  Nagel’s talents, unusual for a socialite, have been on rather  dizzying  display: published articles, a scholarly paper, nationally  syndicated  op-ed pieces, awards, advocacy work for sustainable organic  agriculture  and social justice. An expert shooter in trap, skeet and  clay, she was  a blue-ribbon winner of a small-bore rifle competition.</p> <p>By the time of her 2009 graduation from Nightingale-Bamford, the  private  all-girls school on the Upper East Side, Miss Nagel had founded  Model <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_nations/index.html?inline=nyt-org" target="_blank" title="More articles about the United Nations.">United Nations</a> and history clubs, a <a href="http://www.playintraffic.com/" target="_blank">travel Web site for teenagers, playintraffic.com</a>, and another site, <a href="http://www.americansformadison.org/" target="_blank">americansformadison.org</a>, intended to raise awareness of her hero, the founding father James Madison, and win him a federal monument.</p> <p>Along the way, Miss Nagel befriended some prominent historians and at   17, became the youngest registered lobbyist on Capitol Hill. She is   currently a sophomore at Johns Hopkins, double-majoring in international   relations and history, with a minor in voice (a coloratura soprano,  she  recently recorded a CD of operatic arias).</p> </blockquote> <p>The whole article goes on that way.</p> <p>Rather  than pretending that we know this young woman – a Style Section  profile has several purposes, and showing us a whole person isn&#39;t one of  them – let&#39;s discuss her as if she&#39;s a character in a novel we&#39;re reading. She is  intelligent, poised, physically attractive, hardworking, and priveleged.</p> <p>But don&#39;t you worry for her?</p>]]></html></oembed>