Elena Neuman is a journalist who contributed to The Weekly Standard during its early years, from 1995 to 1997. Her articles for the magazine examined issues in media, higher education, and politics, including coverage of racial controversies, Harvard's admissions practices, and political figures.
Emerge, a glossy monthly that calls itself "Black America's Newsmagazine," is nothing if not provocative. The image on the magazine's January 1997 cover is of a young black woman passed out in a fetal position inside a glass crack pipe that forms the letter "I" in "CIA." The February cover featured…
On Nov. 30, something virtually unprecedented happened in Washington: Before a battery of cameras, an elected official publicly apologized to one of his former staffers for her wrongful firing. And so, House-historian-for-a- week Christina Jeffrey, the notorious Nazi, anti-Semite, racist, and…
Harvard University prides itself on its excellence and selectivity, so it's not especially newsworthy when its government department rejects a candidate for graduate-school admission. But Brett Gerry isn't just any applicant. He had a 4.04 grade point average at Colgate University and scored at the…