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Gripped by ‘dinner party-gate,’ Yale Law confronts a venomous divide
A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor. Amy Chua at her home in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 24, 2021. Christopher Capozziello / The New York Times By Sarah Lyall and Stephanie Saul, New York Times Service June 9, 2021 | 2:13 PM
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. On March 26, a group of students at Yale Law School approached the dean’s office with an unusual accusation: Amy Chua, one of the school’s most popular but polarizing professors, had been hosting drunken dinner parties with students, and possibly federal judges, during the pandemic.
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New York Times reporter-at-large Sarah Lyall was granted the full back page of Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section to suck up to liberal voting activist and sore-loser Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Lyall has pivoted from mocking UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to commiserating with U.S. Democrats when they feared a replay of 2016, and finally to Abrams worship.
The enormous photo of Abrams looking thoughtfully into the middle distance suited the embarrassingly gushing text from Lyall, who didn’t deign to commit any journalism in this soft feature of a hard-edged liberal activist who is infamous for hurling unsubstantiated allegations of voter suppression after her 2018 Georgia loss: “A Star Multitasker’s Latest Chapter.” The underlying article, on Abram s newest novel, is just as hard-hitting as the headline implies:
NBC s Chuck Todd failing to ask Dr. Fauci about the origins of COVID and more round out today s top media headlines.
The New York Times published a gushing profile of Democratic activist Stacey Abrams last week over the upcoming release of her latest novel, While Justice Sleeps, praising the Georgia politician as a star multitasker in the print edition of the paper.
Despite repeated claims she won the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, Abrams has received highly positive media coverage, such as a Washington Post Magazine article where one photograph appeared to liken her to a superhero. Times writer Sarah Lyall added the latest installment in promoting Abrams.