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When will Harvard finally acknowledge other racist stains on its record—such as the friendly relations it pursued with Nazi Germany in the 1930s?

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The Sgt. Schultz I See Nothing Award: To Edinburg Sen. Janne Myrdal, for trying to sneak in $1 million to fund an ...

Clearly, Pabst has struck some kind of Faustian bargain, but Kehlmann’s writing is so subtle it’s difficult to mark the exact ...

Sex took place, but Ullmann picks at the event like an angry sore, with her inability to remember precisely what happened as ...

Holding two Ph.D.s, Mengele’s promising career as a scientist became his grotesque researches into twins and eye color.