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Jackson, Sharpton confront Harvard

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Harvard University's new president was under increasing pressure Wednesday from two prominent black leaders to reconcile with three black professors threatening to switch to Princeton University. Reports indicate the source of dissatisfaction between Lawrence Summers and the professors involved the president's ambivalence toward affirmative action and one professor's support of the presidential ambitions of the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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