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...first biological child of Jolie (who has an adopted son Maddox and daughter Zahara) and Pitt’s first child as well, Shiloh even has a likeness of herself with mom and dad in Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. July 28 was a big day: Lance Bass, former teen heartthrob and member of the boy band N’Sync, publicly announced that he was gay, and Mel Gibson belligerently said that “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” while being arrested for driving under the influence...
...Boys’ turns a neat trick: reestablishing and sustaining familiar tonal palette over the course of an entire album while eluding the joint specter of drudgery and repetition.Yet rather than a sprawling masterwork, “So This is Goodbye” is a cohesive album, whose melodic bass lines issue taut rejoinders to lazy keyboard echoes, delicate synth arpeggios, and efficient percussion—complete with judicious handclaps, especially on “First Time” (alas, sans cowbell).Despite the album’s electro-sheen and programmatic counterpoint, singer Jeremy Greenspan’s high...
Golden’s own investigation shows that legacy preference and its close cousin “development admission” (favoritism towards applicants from rich non-alumni families) contributes considerably to colleges’ coffers. For instance, in 1996, Harvard admitted an applicant named Anne Chandler Bass “in the hope of favors yet to come” from her father, a Yale-educated oil magnate. When Anne Chandler Bass graduated in 2000, her father donated $7 million to Harvard—a gift that now pays the salary of Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel...
...Bass case is one of the less-flagrant examples of spots-for-sale in Golden’s book. After all, Bass anted up after his daughter graduated from Harvard. By contrast, real estate tycoon Charles Kushner pledged $2.5 million to Harvard just as his son Jared prepared to apply. Even though an official at Jared’s own high school acknowledged that the scion’s GPA and SATs didn’t merit Harvard admission, he nonetheless won a spot in the Class of ’03. In sum, the examples of admissions-for-donations...
...some of the spots in our Harvard class are for sale—at a precious price. But, inadvertently, he also shows that legacy preference contributes to Harvard’s largess—and, hence, to our own well-being. Step into a class taught by Sandel or Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and you too are a beneficiary...