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February 23, 2006
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Lawrence Summers, the Jewish president of Harvard University, resigned on Tuesday. Among the many controversies that dogged Summers during his five-year tenure were his outspoken remarks opposing efforts by college campuses to divest from companies that did business with Israel. He called these and other selective sanctions against the Jewish state “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.”

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