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World-renowned academic Noam Chomsky has defended asking Jeffrey Epstein for financial advice even after the disgraced financier became a convicted pedophile in 2008.

The MIT linguist says the late sex offender helped on a ‘technical matter’ related to his and his late wife’s finances

Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, said that he donated the money to his school as part of a $1 million gift he gave in 2016.

Some of America’s top universities are rejecting the tyranny of U.S. News & World Report’s annual lists. Why?

When Jeffrey Epstein visited Bard College in Red Hook, New York state, he insisted on doing so in style as sis helicopter would land at the prestigious university.

Readers criticize Republican resistance to doing so and question the idea of a debt limit. Also: Bard College and Jeffrey Epstein.

A lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase gives a window into the narrow, incestuous world of financial-state power.

Plus, a Los Angeles couple is giving $50 million for environmental programs at USC

Bard officials also say Jeffrey Epstein never visited Simons Rock.

Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, said, “Among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people.”