<p>&ldquo;What I expect Stanford to do, as I always expected, is that they&rsquo;ll ignore it,&rdquo; says Richard White, whose new book argues that the university&#39;s president David Starr Jordan covered up murder and spread the lie that founder Jane Stanford died of natural causes in order to preserve her bequest.&nbsp;</p>

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