Good morning, Broadsheet readers! A Long Island high schooler pulls off a college coup, a French luxury conglomerate is adding three women to its board, and a former Fortune 40 Under 40 pick shines. Enjoy your Thursday.
[bs_bullet_primary] Eight is enough! Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, a senior at Elmont Memorial High School in Long Island, just pulled off a rare feat: She swept the Ivy League, getting accepted into all eight schools. [bs_link link="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/nyregion/long-island-high-school-studentsweepsall-eight-ivies.html" source="New York Times"]
[bs_bullet_primary] Ladies of luxury. Kering, the French luxury goods group that owns Gucci, Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga, has nominated three women--Sapna Sood, Sophie l'H?lias, and Laurence Boone--to its board of directors. [bs_link link="http://footwearnews.com/2016/influencers/power-players/kering-women-board-sapna-sood-sophie-lhelias-laurence-boone-209474/" source="Footwear News"]
[bs_bullet_primary] Space ace. Meet Claudia Kessler, creator of Astronautin, a project to recruit and train Germany's first female astronaut. [bs_link link="http://fortune.com/2016/04/06/first-german-astronaut/" source="Fortune"]
[bs_bullet_primary] Borzi has investors' backs. Phyllis Borzi, a 69-year-old assistant U.S. labor secretary, is the unlikely force behind a controversial rule--expected to be unveiled this week--that would require retirement-savings advisers to put their clients' financial interests above their own. [bs_link link="http://www.wsj.com/articles/financial-advice-rule-has-an-unlikely-champion-1459887575" source="WSJ"]
[bs_bullet_primary] Rising water. The Women Presidents' Organization released its annual list of the fastest-growing women-owned businesses in the U.S. Coming in at No. 1? S'well, the water bottle startup led by Sarah Kauss, a former Fortune 40 Under 40 pick. [bs_link link="http://fortune.com/2016/04/06/fastest-growing-women-business/" source="Fortune"]
MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Arby's Restaurant Group named Darla Morse as CIO. She was most recently CIO of SeaWorld Entertainment.
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[bs_bullet_primary] Flammable fashion? The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that 20,000 Ivanka Trump-branded scarves are being recalled for violating the U.S. Federal Flammability Standard and posing a "burn risk." [bs_link link="http://fortune.com/2016/04/06/ivanka-trump-chinese-scarves-recalled/" source="Fortune"]
[bs_bullet_primary] Media movers. The New Republic's list of the 35 most powerful people in New York media is out, and features Samantha Bee, Megyn Kelly, Gayle King, Amy Schumer, and a host of other female media mavens. [bs_link link="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/powerful-people-new-york-media-880895/item/kelly-ripa-michael-strahan-new-880981" source="The Hollywood Reporter"]
[bs_bullet_primary] Where's Kerry? Kerry Washington called out Adweek for heavily photo-shopping her new cover shoot, writing, "It felt strange to look at a picture of myself that is so different from what I look like when I look in the mirror." [bs_link link="http://www.people.com/article/kerry-washington-photoshopped-adweek-cover" source="People"]
[bs_bullet_primary] Back in the spotlight. Anita Hill, now a professor at Brandeis University, talks about how she feels about being the focus of the upcoming HBO movie Confirmation. [bs_link link="http://time.com/4281036/anita-hill-on-confirmation-what-joe-biden-did-wrong-and-the-clintons/" source="Time"]
[bs_bullet_primary] Girls on film. Check out the lineup for the 2016 Bentonville Film Festival, which was launched last year by Geena Davis to champion the work of women and minorities: [bs_link link="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/06/bentonville-film-festival-2016-lineup" source="EW"]
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Gucci gets flack from British regulator for 'unhealthily thin' model [bs_link link="http://fortune.com/2016/04/06/gucci-unhealthily-thin-model/" source="Fortune"]
For new parents, dad may be the one missing the most sleep [bs_link link="http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/05/473002684/for-new-parents-dad-may-be-the-one-missing-the-most-sleep" source="NPR"]
West Virginia University frat suspended over member's comments on women [bs_link link="http://time.com/4284070/west-virginia-fraternity-suspended/" source="Time"]
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner launch publishing imprint at Random House [bs_link link="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/06/lena-dunham-jenni-konner-random-house" source="EW"]
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[bs_quote title="Final Thought...." quote= "Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime." source= "Controversial comments made by Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich, the judge who threw out Kesha's hate-crime and human rights claims against producer Dr. Luke" link="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/06/473284900/judge-dismisses-keshas-hate-crime-claims-against-producer-dr-luke" link_source="NPR"]
