by Linda Scherr
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The fifth session of the widely applauded Bard LLI Distinguished Speaker Series (DSS) will take place on September 30 with Ray D. Madoff, Boston College Law School professor, speaking on “Taxes and the Oligarchy.” Her book The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy discusses how the tax code “has created two fundamentally separate societies: the working Americans who pay and the ultrarich who benefit.” More information on this session will be forthcoming in an article in next month’s newsletter.

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by Deborah Lanser
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Every year, LLI has provided a grant for students in the Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) program in New York City for expenses incurred during summer internships between their junior and senior years. This year, the four recipients, who each received $562.50, took full advantage of the opportunities the grant afforded them.

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by Deborah Lanser
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As you’ll see when the fall catalog lands in your inbox on Wednesday. August 26, you will have a difficult time choosing which classes to take. Those who are interested in medicine, well-being, and fitness will have a wide variety of options. Bard faculty members will share their research in math and science,

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By Gretchen Lytle

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Walking the Bard Arboretum provides rich experiences all year long. People investigate the historic and broad range of trees planted on the campus and the former estates, hike on trails through old-growth forests, check out the vegetables at the Bard Farm, and look for pollinators in fields and cultivated gardens around the campus.

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by Felice Gelman

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Many of you know Ray Yip, an LLI member, from the popular courses he has taught on evidence-based strategies for aging successfully. His courses draw on his long and varied career as an epidemiologist and public health expert. Ray says, “People know many of the things about exercise and diet that can improve life as you age,

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