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Adesogan's case became one of the most notorious in Brown's history in March 1994, when he was dismissed on charges of sexually assaulting Brown female students. Later coverage indicated that the university had been informally aware as early as October 1992 of Adesogan's behavior, but had declined...
A forthcoming book by Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist David K. Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America (Knopf; $30), reaches similar conclusions. Shipler embarks on a sprawling, impressive tour along the "crucial fault line of America," crafting an absorbing theater piece of characters, from undergraduates at Princeton to...
His concern about drug laws led Soros logically to an interest in the criminal-justice system. He established the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture, which this year will give away about $5 million in grants to both service and advocacy organizations. The issue: every year in America some 5.5...
Maybe it's payback time for having to wear those ears out in public. Mouseketeers, the formerly unassailable icons of wholesomeness, are turning nasty. First a bunch of them filed a complaint against Disney about royalties. Then one of the leaders of that group, DARLENE GILLESPIE, who was so popular...
In Chicago, Daley has taken on his city's most intractable problem: a $3 billion school system that former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett once called the worst in the nation. Two years ago, Daley, a Democrat, convinced Illinois' Republican state legislature to hand him authority over the schools. He...