A Cold-Blooded Killing Ignites a National Conversation. Plus, Part Two of The Harvard Plan.

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The suspected killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO goes viral, and the culture war that ousted Harvard’s first Black president.

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0:00.0	Yo, go do a deep dive on this guy right now.
0:02.5	He seems like someone I would probably be friends with.
0:05.3	Mama, I'm in love with a criminal.
0:07.6	It's Luigi.
0:09.0	That's a spicy meat bowl.
0:11.1	The alleged killer of the United Healthcare CEO is getting the TikTok treatment,
0:16.3	much to the disgust of some in the traditional media.
0:19.5	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
0:22.7	I'm Michael Loenger.
0:24.2	Also on this week's show, Harvard President Claudine Gay
0:27.3	found herself in the hot seat at a congressional hearing last year
0:30.9	after protests on campus were deemed anti-Semitic.
0:34.7	But that was just the beginning of her troubles.
0:37.3	The elite college is facing pressure again to house its leader as House lawmakers
0:41.5	investigate academic plagiarism allegations.
0:44.2	You might as well murder somebody in academia if you're going to plagiarize your dissertation,
0:47.9	okay?
0:48.3	Tune in for the second episode of our mini-series about the leadership crisis at Harvard
0:53.0	and what it spells for universities writ
0:55.6	large. It's all coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Michael
1:04.1	Onger. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. You know the story. On Wednesday, December 4th, a hooded assassin gunned down a corporate exec on a Midtown Manhattan Street in the hushed twilight just before sunrise.
1:19.0	From there, the narrative took off in many directions.
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