… should be afraid of (not this poor guy), has just maybe moved a few steps closer to serious exposure in the upcoming sex trafficking trial of his client and pal Jeffrey Epstein. Legendary Harvard personality Alan Dershowitz, defender of female genital mutilators, has long been accused of preying, via Epstein, on underage girls.
‘Paul Cassell, one of [alleged victim Virginia] Giuffre’s lawyers, told the court that if the records [of an earlier Epstein legal case] are made public, they “will show that Epstein [was] trafficking girls to the benefit of his friends, including Mr. Dershowitz.”’
Other commenters on this newly-reopened case will be more interested in higher-level Epstein connections – our current labor secretary and our current president – but this is University Diaries. We do universities.
So far, in the wake of the college admissions scandal, that school has only had to deal with evil coaches and scummy parents… and, as of this morning, a lawsuit from the son of one of the scummy parents – a guy with real balls, if you ask me. He doesn’t want his fraudulently obtained degree to become meaningless when Georgetown expels him.
But listen up: For years G’town has been admitting all the teenybopper descendants of the crowned heads of Europe. Have you noticed? Town and Country has noticed. This short piece only brushes the tiara: they all go there, and … you know… you have to wonder…
I mean to say everyone’s going to start to wonder now, what with the larger scandal drawing attention to this particular campus. Royal pain a-comin’.
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UPDATE: Uh-oh.
… up in flames.
Nearly a thousand years of history going up in flames.
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… Like a prodigious skeleton of fire
Leaving an immense void — twisted iron, indented
clock wheels, broken muted bells.
Foolish imposter doors which did not open
Hang in high galleries. Perforated the great
roses — intense blues, purples,
Reds so warm and vigorous which burnished
The rays of the midday sun. The gargoyles drip
heavy tears. I hear the bells falling.
Wind is raging among the naves and corpses.
— Daisy Aldan, The Destruction of Cathedrals.
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From the Notre Dame School of Polyphony (1160-1250).
A HuffPost writer comes up with the perfect Bezos/American Media, Inc. headline.
(The Harvard one.)
U CONN DECLINES TO RETURN SACKLER FAMILY DONATIONS
AMID FUROR OVER OPIOID MANUFACTURER PURDUE PHARMA
ITALY’S PRIME MINISTER PROMISES
TO CHANGE ITALY IN TWO YEARS
With Title-Game Prices Plummeting more than 90 Percent, Should College Football be Worried?
KOHLER’S SMART TOILET PROMISES
‘A FULLY IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE‘
Urban Meyer To Unironically Co-Teach A Class On Character And Leadership At Ohio State