The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard |Jim Newell |The Baffler

    On December 23, 2011, the dons of Harvard University finally got to see Adam Wheeler sentenced to a year in prison. Wheeler, a twenty-five-year-old whom they admitted in 2007 on the strength of an academic record he’d fabricated out of thin air, had been caught again—and this was not something a young gentleman does to America’s most highly self-regarded institution of advanced credentialing.

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