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HL 84 – I Won’t Forget That Once I was that Asian Kid Applying to Schools
The admissions policies of elite schools are under attack, including in court, for discriminating against Asian-American applicants. In the Harvard case, awaiting decision in a federal district court in Boston, the document that paints a thousand pictures is one from...
HL 83 – Hopelessly Liberal The U.S. Open Addition
Possibly you are a fan of tennis but did not go to Flushing Meadows for more than 100 hours of the recently concluded U.S. Open, as HL did. If so, this post is for you. Among the things prominent tennis press and commentators uniformly stated pre-tournament was that...
HL 82 – The David Boies/Alan Dershowitz War Implicates Things Far More Important Than Their Egos
HL has recently asked himself “self, how can lefties like you beatify lawyers who represent Gitmo prisoners pro bono but sneer at other sisters and brothers at the bar (sometimes they are the same) for taking money from Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Cosby,...
HL 81 – For Democratic Candidates Obama Becomes What Reagan is for Republicans
How many times have we heard Republican candidates for elective office invoke Ronald Reagan as their hero, inspiration and justification for a policy that Reagan never backed, would not have supported, or clearly had opposed? The Gipper’s defining multi-front cold war...
HL 80 – Stoned by Toni: Theatre Reparations Continued
HL 73 “Reparations in the Theatre World” commented on current conventions and unwritten but ignored, at peril, Rules that prevail in the legitimate theatrical and cinema worlds. The Rules, de facto, constitute an informal regime of reparations for discrimination and...
HL 79 – National Polls Confirm that Gillibrand and de Blasio are Zeroes
Results of the first NBC/WSJ national poll of Americans who say they will vote in next year’s primary elections confirm that Democrats in all 50 states have learned what New Yorkers have known for quite awhile: Kirsten Gillibrand and Bill de Blasio are zeroes. They...