Dmitry

U.S. college admissions scandal sparks $500 billion lawsuit http://news.trust.org/item/20190314135743-dob9p Jennifer Kay Toy, a former teacher in Oakland, California, said she believed her son Joshua was not admitted to some colleges, despite his 4.2 grade point average, because wealthy parents thought it was "ok to lie, cheat, steal and bribe their children's way into a good college." I thought 4.0 is the top. 4.2...is it like 11 on the Spinal Tap scale? Still stand by the Hollywood do-gooder label...until the full list of those involved comes around. If these three are an exception, will happily issue a formal mea culpa.

WTF does this have to do with Trump?! This payoff scheme has been going on for years. Projection, anyone?

Art Blakey

Nice, good for you to finally find it.Thanks for the back cover pic. I'm confused by Gitler's descrition of Berman's cause of death. First he writes that it was air embolism, then that it was hard drugs. Also, the photo is listed as Schlitten's. What a precocious lad...must've been 14 when he took it.

I read it, and I think the title is more interesting than the content. In this case we are not dealing with the value placed on education to further someone's success later in life, like he describes in the 'good old boys' adage, but in education as a token indicator of wealth and prestige. Narcissistic parents view their children as an extension of themselves, and pony up to hundreds of thousands to circumvent the regular admissions process, imho akin to paying hundreds of thousands to plastic surgeons to circumvent the appearance of ageing. The difference is that having a nose job or a butt-job is legal and not frowned upon, and if these parents could openly pay for their children to attend college for way more than regular admission costs, they definitely would. They are just not wealthy enough to give a few million to donate to Yale and their kid is in by proxy, but they do have up to $500k to give someone with a proven track record of getting things done. That's why seeing that Kimmel lady on the list is weird. For her, and a couple of other really-really wealthy individuals it could be just proverbial greed. She was gonna save a couple of million...didn't quite work out.

Never seen this one. Can't find audio on-line either. What's it like? Jazz, stylized klezmer, or authentic ? Cover is very Xanadu-like.

Well, the only major player that's not there from his time is CR. I'd love to see how ZZ goes about it. It's all over for them competitively for this season, so he's got nothing to account for for the next 6 months...a lot of wiggle room to restructure the squad. Rashford would be great to snare from ManU. He's got that CR "wholesome player" quality about him...better than Kane, imho. Started reading Fear and Loathing in La Liga. Captivating!

Since you've invested serious time in in your post, I'll expand the Hollywood do-gooder list to anyone from the South California cocoon of non-profit board member wives, their gazillionaire husbands, and other glitterati. Criteria - have they ever stepped an a red carpet, and been asked "who are you wearing?". In other news - Jimmy needs a new keyboard.

Do-gooder extraordinaire Elisabeth Meyer Kimmel, i.e. THE SAINT OF LA JOLLA - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/college/kimmel-college-scam-268539 The 54-year-old Kimmel heads Midwest Television, a firm she inherited from her late father. Kimmel, who appears to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, last year sold TV and radio stations in San Diego for $325 million. The media executive and her husband Gregory are board members of a family charitable foundation with $27 million in assets.

He is just amazing. I don't know how to describe this sense of anticipation of knowing where the ball is going to come.

Nope. It's precisely what I wrote - Hollywood do-gooders, i.e. the people who make movies and tv shows that teach everyone how to do good, yet, coincidentally, they themselves are full of shit. Here she is, being so torn up about her baby leaving the proverbial nest. Paying a half a million bribe for it in a tax-fraud scheme just happened to skip her mind. https://www.today.com/video/lori-loughlin-talks-new-show-and-her-daughter-going-to-college-1016383043768 PS - You just exhausted your daily roll-eye emoji allowance. No worries, I do know someone who can hook you up with another dozen for a few bucks, Jimmy.

Roos, 1.5 mil figure and Macy are in my head. Yeah, looks like it was a measly 15k.... They got a bargain!

This falls under the RICO statutes. They've effectively organized a criminal enterprise to defraud the universities. This is different than donating a library wing or a cafeteria, which is done in the open. That's how BUSH2 got into Yale probably... This was all undercover, implicitly. And yes, I believe this Macy guy was in on it. Him and the missus spent 1.5 million to place their less than brilliant kids into USC, and, I think, it was rolled through some kind of a fake charity. So they even wrote it off their taxes. Hello, tax fraud! It's not like he wouldn't notice 1,.5 million gone from their bank account...he even met with the head fraudster. I wonder if he'll play himself in the TV movie about it...

Have you seen this? https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/03/13/college-cheating-scandal-felicity-huffman-lori-laughlin-kaye-pkg-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/ Just found out yesterday...what a disgusting bunch these Hollywood do-gooders are.. For every one of their jerk-off kids who got into top schools through bribes, a deserving student was left out. This is going to be big.

Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool (2019) https://media.dream13.com/miles-davis-birth-of-the-cool-2019/ It's going to premier at the Art and Design Film Festival here in Providence, which is interesting even without the Miles film. I'm considering buying a full -ride ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-art-design-film-festival-miles-davis-birth-of-the-cool-tickets-57846459317?utm_source=Columbus%2BTheatre%2BInfo&utm_campaign=4ccd381a00-mar122019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e5b44da105-4ccd381a00-125693281

Not so in the USA. I’ve only seen a small handful over the years.

When words ring true- Billie Jean is not my lover She's just a girl who claims that I am the one But the kid is not my son... Yep.

Back to the original point of silencing an artist due to a crime committed or implied...The Cosby Show is all but wiped off the air. For now at least, it’s taboo.

Well, you can also fry some nice bacon and eggs on it...breakfast in bed for the missus. Don’t forget the biscuits.

Michael Jackson songs banned from radio stations around the world Read more at https://www.nme.com/news/music/michael-jackson-songs-banned-from-radio-stations-around-the-world-2457781#lXdJq8pxoxAHzeoy.99 https://www.nme.com/news/music/michael-jackson-songs-banned-from-radio-stations-around-the-world-2457781 It appears that MJ was a fucking creepo. Should his music be banned from radio waves? I'm somewhat torn about this. Has this been done before?

Good luck to you! Don't lift that till you're 100%...and when you do, lift with your legs, not your back. Ask me how I know.

Wow...just wow. Ronaldo must be having a serious bout of schadenfreude right now...and loving it. I didn't watch the match, just the highlight reel. How was Santiago bernabeu sounding tonight? Were they playing a Requiem?

The LGBTQPRST headphones are not on sale? I smell a lawsuit.

Yes, today they'd toss your application aside. I'm sure when you got a job, your Wharton degree was a big factor, though. Oh, and I did lie about the cost of my school now. Just looked it up, and It's $92k per year just for the tuition and fees part of it. Add dorm/apartment share, meals, living expenses, and it bumps it up to $115k per year, IF you are really, and I mean REALLY frugal in NYC. That is almost $500,000 for a four-year graduate professional degree. Now, if you add the prerequisite bachelor's degree expenses, that is easily $750k. Un-effing real. My 16 y.o. has no clue what she wants to do...a typical Generation Z...vacuum between the ear pads, stuck in her phone 24/7. But at least she's not a millennial, with bottle caps in their ears, and tattoos. I'm trying to steer her towards healthcare career, physical therapy or something like that. Oh, and she knows that we are not paying for a private school. Our retirement stash in untouchable. Community college sounds perfect for the freshman and sophomore years. Hell, an electrician or a plumber makes way-way more than someone with a masters degree in women's studies, music appreciation, or literature. This college obsession is so bizarre...