The professor made porn. His firing may shape the future of free speech.

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"If they can do this to me, they could do it to any tenured professor," says Joe Gow. "Academia is not a law firm or a bank or an insurance company. We're in the truth business."

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Here's what the economy could look like with a Biden or Trump presidency

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have different plans for how they'd tackle the US economy if they win the November election.

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Unmarried Chinese women have found yet another way to get over the stigma of being single: Flee to the West and get another degree

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An Asian woman.

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Harvard's first Black president received so many death threats that police watched her residence 24/7, report says

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Former Harvard University president Claudine Gay.

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Bill Ackman wants more college presidents to be business people. But that's not the way it works.

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Bill Ackman (left) spent months arguing for the removal of Claudine Gay (right), Harvard's former president who stepped down earlier this week.

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One of the country's best universities will now cover in-state tuition for students from families making $100,000 or less

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A view of the Rotunda on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Columbia administrators reportedly covertly changed the university's event policies just before suspending pro-Palestine student groups

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Low Memorial Library at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City.

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These are the 10 most prestigious internships to have on your resume, according to 13,000 current and former interns

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Interns ranked the most impressive internships when presented with a list of top companies, according to Vault.

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Big money donors are slamming Ivy League universities and pulling funding over their response to the Israel-Hamas war

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Wealthy college donors like billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman have slammed Ivy League universities like Harvard for their responses to the Israel-Hamas war, while others have gone a step further and stopped their donations to the schools.

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Israel's richest man and his wife stepped down from a Harvard board, saying their faith in the school's leadership had been 'broken' over its response to the Hamas attacks

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Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023.
Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023.

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