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There's a specter looming behind the Duke lacrosse scandal. The notion of a 27-year-old black woman, who is a student at a historically black college and a single mother of two, being hired as an exotic dancer for - and then allegedly raped by - generally privileged, younger white men conjures up memories of that classic American sex story: the pretty female slave being summoned up to the big house to sexually satisfy the master...
Andrei Shleifer ’82, the economist embroiled in a fraud scandal that cost Harvard $26.5 million to settle, will return to teaching here this fall...
...March 13, when the men's lacrosse team held a party that included underage drinking, black strippers were hired to dance before white males, and racist remarks were shouted into the night. University President Richard Brodhead has created five independent committees to look at broader issues that the scandal uncovered, and one of them will examine the lacrosse program. A search for the coach's replacement has not begun and will not begin until after the committee finishes its study and offers its recommendation. But even then, there is no guarantee that Duke will field a team next year...
...Losing a lacrosse program for a few years seems like nothing compared to what this scandal could do to this university and community. The talk of racism, sexism and binge drinking that has accompanied this case, to a certain extent, has forced the university to look at the big picture - and confront tough issues beyond the alleged rape of a 27-year-old black student at a nearby college...
...normal assumption about such indirectness would be that the group is hiding something, and filthy lucre is a staple of the Opus myth. Two rumors about its popularity with John Paul were that it funded the Solidarity trade union and helped bail out the Vatican bank after its 1982 scandal. Poverty is demonstrably not one of Opus' vows. It has a reputation for cultivating the rich or those soon to be, at both élite colleges and its own institutions. (In Latin America many in the church feel that Opus priests served once ascendant oligarchs over the masses.) Even...