When College Admissions Essays Go Viral
A guide to navigating the horrors of other people reading your college admissions essay.
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An arcane court case has revealed that an Ivy League university awarded a racist fellowship for 77 years. As it turns out, the school may have known about the "Caucasian" clause all along — even though its recipients did not. Columbia says it's trying to get back the money for "a diversity of students," but what happened in between? And why are we just learning about this now?
A guide to navigating the horrors of other people reading your college admissions essay.
Today a Columbia professor stripped down and curled into a ball as imagery of 9/11 and the Holocaust played in the background — apparently as a way to teach quantum mechanics. Why? How? What?
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If you're an aide to that "mild mannered ophthalmologist" Bashar al-Assad, who's ruling that bloody murderous mess that is Syria, your best bet getting out of the country and into a cushy Ivy League grad program is apparently Barbara Walters
It turns out the Colombian sex scandal rocking the Secret Service isn't as novel as we all thought.
The Secret Service is moving fast to extinguish its prostitution scandal but an onslaught of lies, lawsuits, and investigations guarantee that the media frenzy isn't going anywhere.
According to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce today that Cornell University has won the city's competition to open a new technology-based campus on Roosevelt Island.
U.S. authorities are building a politically explosive case that Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, finances itself through a vast drug-smuggling network that links a Lebanese bank, a violent Mexican cartel, and U.S. cocaine users.
The CIA and embassy officials deny any knowledge or involvement
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