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...Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...you’ll see an absurd number of seniors in business suits hoping against hope that four years at Harvard is their golden ticket to the Upper East Side. Their stories are similar: born somewhere, achieved greatness, and had signing bonuses thrust upon them by Goldman, Sachs, Lehman, and other Jews. For them, quaint Cambridge has been either a brief respite from their childhood New York state of mind or else a warm-up for the World Series on the Hudson. Either way, they’ll swarm the platform at South Station as soon as their bags...
...Lehman insists that the Ariases, members of Panama's rabiblancos, or white élite, are just being greedy. They deny it, though they won't say how much of the money they would give to charity if they won. But Lehman says this tropical probate drama tests whether Panama's notoriously corrupt judicial system can be trusted to uphold the surge of legal contracts coming its way as the canal expands and Americans continue to move to Panama for cheaper living. "It's important that the poor children get this money and equally important that our legal system stop tarnishing...
Legal experts say the family is relying on technicalities to get the will annulled; so far two lower courts have ruled against the Ariases. But the fact that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case worries Lehman, especially since a former justice is being investigated for bribery...
...Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...