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OPINION: Harvard still wants its D.C. sugar daddy

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Former U.S. president Barack Obama hails Harvard as shining beacon of academic freedom.

But Ian Haworth says the university would be all too happy to keep cashing the federal government’s cheques.

Private institutions have every right to do what they want within the confines of the law.

But the second you accept taxpayer dollars, you’re no longer an entirely private institution.

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