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‘Stranger Things’ star Noah Schnapp has been working as a lifeguard all summer
Actor and incoming first-year Noah Schnapp plans to attend the Wharton School in the fall, saying that he wanted to try something different from a drama degree.
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Leading neurocriminologist considers Joker “a great educational tool”
PIK Professor Adrian Raine discusses the new film “Joker” and how it might be used to teach criminology. “It’s really hard to get a true-life story that fits all of these pieces together, let alone a very dramatic and stylized movie that illustrates these factors quite strongly,” he said. “That was really a revelation.”
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Is the Harvey Weinstein criminal case in trouble?
“We’re in a different arena than we were 10 years ago,” said Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts and Sciences, comparing the current moment to the pre-#MeToo era. As prosecutors, “the public and the politics are on your side now…. You can find juries that will convict.”
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Muhammad Ali Revives a Lost Era of Sportswriting
John Trojanowski of the Perelman School of Medicine reflects on meeting the late Muhammad Ali and comments on Ali's early onset of Parkinson’s disease.