28 h. ago Ivy League student kicked out of Yale after creating fake identify from rural North Dakota to hide Asian roots

A Yale undergraduate known as 'Katherina Lynn' was expelled after officials discovered she fabricated her identity, claiming to be from rural North Dakota instead of California.

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38 h. ago No one hurt after ‘intentional’ explosion at Harvard medical campus, officials say

Officers did not find additional devices in a sweep of building, authorities sayThere was an explosion early Saturday at Harvard University’s medical school that appears to have been intentional, but no one was injured, authorities said.Police at the Massachusetts Ivy League university said in a statement that an officer who responded to a fire alarm encountered two unidentified people and tried to stop them. But they ran from the campus’s Goldenson building before the officer got to where the alert was triggered by an explosion, police said. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago Explosion at Harvard medical campus appears intentional, authorities say

No one was injured and officers did not find additional devices in a sweep of building, police sayThere was an explosion early Saturday at Harvard University’s medical school that appears to have been intentional, but no one was injured, authorities said.Police at the Massachusetts Ivy League university said in a statement that an officer who responded to a fire alarm encountered two unidentified people and tried to stop them. But they ran from the campus’s Goldenson building before the officer got to where the alert was triggered by an explosion, police said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago #MeToo campus thriller After the Hunt is provocation for provocation’s sake | Adrian Horton

Julia Roberts emerges unscathed but Luca Guadagnino’s tiring and muddled attempt to comment on trending topics doesn’t inspire the debates it so clearly wantsContains mild spoilersIn theory, After the Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s would-be psychological thriller tracing the fallout of a sexual-assault accusation at a cosseted Ivy League campus, hinges on a single early scene: Alma, the aloof and alluring philosophy professor made icily incandescent by Julia Roberts, arrives home to find Maggie, her doctoral student protege played by ascendant star Ayo Edebiri, waiting for her in the rain.Crouched together in an apartment stairwell – Guadagnino, a slick and stylish film-maker, frames them facing each other as mirrored negatives in preppy neutrals, a generational yin-yang – Maggie tells Alma in clipped, digressive bits that something bad happened with Hank (Andrew Garfield), a fellow tenure-track professor who serves as Alma’s professional rival, friend and maybe lover. The two had...

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2 w. ago We spent thousands on our dream home with a fantastic view that was like something out of a Constable painting soon it will be carpeted by thousands of solar panels surrounded by security fencing

When the Fosters looked around a rural North Yorkshire farmhouse, with a view to purchasing it from the aristocratic Ropner family, what first struck them was the view from the bedroom window.

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3 w. ago A candidate for local office in New York disappeared months ago. He could still win

Long Beach voters have a choice: re-elect the Republican incumbent or the Democrat who seemingly vanished at seaA political candidate in the New York City suburbs went for a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean this past spring and never returned.Petros Krommidas’s phone, keys and clothes were found on the sands at Long Beach on Long Island. The 29-year-old former Ivy League rower, who was training for a triathlon, had parked his car just off the picturesque wooden boardwalk. Continue reading...

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