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Dec 2023
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CutTheClutter: Why are Harvard, MIT, UPe...

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The presidents of three of the top US universities — Harvard, MIT and UPenn — are facing Congress questioning over pro-Palestinian protests on their campuses where slogans deemed anti-semitic were raised. In Ep 1366 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains the turmoil that has already caused one head to roll, that of UPenn president Elizabeth Magill.

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