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There are some interviews a journalist never forgets. I remember the time a father in Harlem explained to me why …
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Amy Wax, a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was recently barred from teaching certain courses there. …
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While working a summer job during college in the early 1990s, I met a law student named Darryl. We became …
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