Jack Kemp

In a seven page NY Times article from 1995, it was revealed that various famous Ivy students posed nude for "postural health photos." Perhaps this is where Meryl Streep, one of these students, learned to rationalize such behavior as Harvey Weinstein's as "normal." Here are some of the "highlights" (or lowlights).

THE GREAT IVY LEAGUE NUDE POSTURE PHOTO SCANDAL

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Shocking, because what he found was an enormous cache of nude photographs, thousands and thousands of photographs of young men in front, side and rear poses. Disturbing, because on closer inspection the photos looked like the record of a bizarre body-piercing ritual: sticking out from the spine of each and every body was a row of sharp metal pins.

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The procedure did seem strange. But I soon learned that it was a long-established custom at most Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools. George Bush, George Pataki, Brandon Tartikoff and Bob Woodward were required to do it at Yale. At Vassar, Meryl Streep; at Mount Holyoke, Wendy Wasserstein; at Wellesley, Hillary Rodham and Diane Sawyer. All of them -- whole generations of the cultural elite -- were asked to pose. But however much the colleges tried to make this bizarre procedure seem routine, its undeniable strangeness engendered a scurrilous strain of folklore.

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Read the whole thing. Don't worry, you won't see any nude photos in this Times article. Gee, and I was so looking forward to see Hillary "au naturel." NOT

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