Astrid Delgado first wrote her college application essay about a death in her family. She then reshaped it around a Spanish book she read as a way to connect with her Dominican heritage. Deshayne Curley wanted to leave his Native ancestry out of his essay. But he reworked it to focus on an heirloom necklace that reminded him of his home on the Navajo reservation. Jyel Hollingsworth’s first draft of her essay explored her love of chess. The finale focused on the prejudice between her Korean and Black American families and the economic hardships she overcame. All three students said…
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A Harvard task force on anti-Semitism got off to a rocky start, with complaints that the professor it chose to help the committee had signed a letter critical of Israel, describing it as an “apartheid regime” for its treatment of Palestinians.Harvard’s new interim president, Alan Garber, announced the creation of two “presidential task forces” on Friday, one to combat anti-Semitism and the other to combat Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias. The move came less than a month after his predecessor, Claudine Gay, was forced to resign amid accusations of plagiarism and criticism that she was weak in reining in anti-Semitism.But the…
For nearly a quarter century, a group of the nation’s most elite universities had a legal shield: They would be exempt from federal antitrust laws when they handed out formulas to measure the financial need of prospective students.But the provision included a critical requirement: that the partner universities’ admissions processes be “need-blind,” meaning they could not factor in whether a prospective student was wealthy enough to pay.A court filing Tuesday night revealed that five of those universities — Brown, Columbia, Duke, Emory and Yale — collectively agreed to pay $104.5 million to settle a lawsuit that accused them of, in…
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen defended the Biden administration’s economic agenda on Thursday, drawing sharp contrasts with the Trump administration’s policies as President Biden begins to make the general election case that he has been a stronger steward of the economy than his predecessor.Ms. Yellen’s comments came after new data released Thursday reinforced that message: The United States economy grew at a healthy pace last year, topping 3 percent and defying expectations of a recession. The strong numbers coincided with a White House effort to bolster the president’s economic record and send his top economic advisers around the country to…
In the spring of 2020, when President Donald J. Trump tweeted messages warning that increased reliance on mail-in ballots would lead to a “rigged election,” the platform ran a corrective, disproving his claims.”Get the details on voting by mail,” read one content tag. “Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud,” the hyperlinked article states.This month, Elon Musk, who has since bought Twitter and renamed it X, repeated several of Mr Trump’s claims about the US voting system, promoting distorted and false perceptions that US elections were open to fraud and illegality. non-citizen voting.This time, there were…
Two days after winning the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump was back in court today, testifying in a defamation lawsuit brought against him in New York by E. Jean Carroll, the author who accused him of raping her in a department store with clothing. room in the 1990s.”I just wanted to defend myself, my family and, frankly, the presidency,” Trump said less than four minutes into the stand. He was responding to a question about whether he had intended to harm his prosecution by making defamatory statements denying her claims, despite the fact that he had been found liable in…
Boeing had hoped that 2024 would be the year to significantly increase production of its popular Max jets. But less than a month into the year, the company is struggling to reassure airline customers that it will still be able to deliver on its promises.That’s because the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will limit the plane maker’s production until it is confident about Boeing’s quality control practices. On January 5, a panel blew off the fuselage of a Boeing 737 Max 9 shortly after takeoff, terrifying passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight and forcing the pilots to make an…
Relatives of tourists killed in the 2002 terrorist bombing in Bali, Indonesia, spoke of endless, devastating grief, and two detainee conspirators in the attack renounced violence in the name of Islam on Thursday for a US military tribunal assembled in the Gulf Guantanamo to discuss it. proposal.The detainees, Mohammed Farik Bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep, both Malaysians, pleaded guilty last week to war crimes for conspiring with an al Qaeda affiliate to carry out the attack. The bombings killed 202 people from 22 nations.”No God of any religion rewards such acts of horror,” said Solomon Lamagni-Miller, 18, from…
In one of the nation’s top Senate races, the top candidate may be a non-contestant.The race to challenge Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana — already a heated battle with deep national implications and the acute intensity of a family drama — has increasingly focused on Rep. Matt Rosendale, an anti-abortion Republican who denies the elections.Both parties are using him as a pawn in their electoral chess match: Establishment Republicans, who have rallied behind Tim Sheehy, a wealthy businessman, are trying to keep Mr. Rosendale out of the race, while Democrats appear to be helping him open up the road to its…
One of the main allies of Donald J. Trump inside the Republican National Committee has withdrawn a planned resolution to try to force the party’s official body to say the GOP presidential race is effectively over, even though only two states have voted and Nikki Haley has vowed to continue campaigning of against the dominant pioneer.David Bossi, an RNC committeeman from Maryland and a longtime Trump confidant, had proposed a draft resolution declaring Mr. Trump the party’s “presumptive” nominee, according to two people with direct knowledge of his role in the effort .But he dropped the plan to push the…