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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...favoritism for siblings, FM spoke to Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, director of admissions and Don Vito Corleone, as the case may be. She explained that the business of sibling admissions is less clear cut than the system for legacies. “Since the admissions became competitive in the mid- 20th century, there has been a tip for Harvard-Radcliffe sons or daughters.” Lewis uses “tip” (as in “of the scale”) to describe the slight bias toward legacies; ceteris paribus...

Author: By Scott G. Bromley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Harvard Mafia: Siblings Kill to Join the Family in Cambrdige | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...ring that specialized in selling tabs of the rave drug Ecstasy to teenagers. Teenagers! Even worse, Gravano's alleged pushers were members of a white-supremacist youth gang called the Devil Dogs that hung out at the local Taco Bell. Taco Bell! Somewhere John Gotti is laughing hysterically. And Vito Corleone is spinning in his grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 6, 2000 | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

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