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Panic mode

TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN THE college-admissions scandal dubbed Operation Varsity Blues crashed into headlines, it immediately became a showcase of white privilege.

Images of actor Lori Loughlin and Gordon Caplan, the former co-chairman of the white-shoe law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher—making the perp walk to the Boston courthouse where they and nearly 40 other parents were charged with paying an independent counselor named Rick

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