Tiger Mom, Hidden Dragon

YOU WISH you had "tiger blood," Charlie Sheen. Here's the real McCoy: The daughter of Yale law professor Amy Chua -- author of the bestselling and controversial memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" -- has been accepted to both Harvard and Yale. Tiger mom's parental work obviously paid off big-time. Talk about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In her memoir, Chua said she raised her daughters (she has two) with an iron, Chinese-style fist. Per the AP, the technique meant "no sleepovers, no play dates, no TV, no computer games, no grades under A, grueling rote academics and hours of piano and violin practice." Though her book caused an uproar (OMG! She's too extreme!), what's not to like? Chua's slightly medieval parental-style produced a brilliant, disciplined, responsible, cultured, young renaissance woman who got into the top two universities on the planet; and who will someday produce her own "tiger kids" to repeat this vicious cycle. The horror, the horror ...