During the summer of 1973, the renowned civil rights attorney Joseph Rauh, Jr. delivered the featured speech at the annual fund-raising dinner of the Milwaukee Jewish Council. The audience, Rauh noted, surely expected him to address the burgeoning Watergate scandal, the attempt by Republican operatives tied to President Richard Nixon to break into Democratic National…
Harvard University has revoked its acceptance of at least 10 applicants to its incoming freshman class after learning the group traded sexually explicit and racist images, some of which mocked the Holocaust, the student newspaper reported. A university spokeswoman declined on Monday to comment on Sunday’s Harvard Crimson report, which cites multiple members of the…
Jared Kushner has often been characterized as the head of President-elect Donald Trump’s braintrust. But if old allegations are true, the newspaper owner and real estate magnate didn’t get into Harvard on his smarts. “There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,”…
I have just emerged from what has felt like the most stressful experience of my adult life. Those of you whose children are high school seniors know exactly what I’m talking about: the college admissions process. Though untold numbers of people go through it each year, the process remains opaque and an emotional rollercoaster. So…
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