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The opioid addiction issue is headed for the next stop on what is now a well-worn path: from public health crisis, to subject for award-winning and heart-tugging journalism, to payday for trial lawyers. The lawyers are poised to do to prescription drug companies, pharmacy chains, and drug distributors what they
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One way to make sense of the onslaught of political corruption investigations and prosecutions in recent years is to understand it as our legal system trying to draw the line between political misbehavior that is merely shady and that which is outright criminal. Instead of looking at each of these
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Harvard University had only just announced its next president before he came under attack — not for anything he did, but for who he is. That is, in the eyes of his critics, at least, a "white male."
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Dear Lawrence Bacow: Congratulations on being named as the next president of Harvard University.
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The story of the Trump administration this year has been the story of two memos. There is the Nunes Memo, from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, describing "abuses" by the FBI and the Department of Justice in wiretapping a volunteer adviser to the Trump
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Harvard University will choose its next president in the coming weeks. Surprises are always possible, but the search looks like it's headed in a direction that tells a story of national, even international significance. Among the leading contenders for the job are reportedly:
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It used to be that when someone publicly announced that he or she wanted to spend more time with family, most people figured that was a way of putting a polite public face on some other, less flattering story. But in at least two recent high-profile cases, it appears to
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Vice President Mike Pence will visit Israel on January 22 and 23. The White House says he will visit the Western Wall, Israel's Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem, and Israel's parliament, the Knesset. I've got another suggestion: let Pence add to his itinerary a