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When Bill Ackman, a financier who got rich betting against companies’ stocks, decided to wage a battle against Harvard’s president, he relied on a strategy that earned him a reputation as one of the most ruthless investors on Wall Street.
Bill Ackman, by his own admission and according to others around him, resents that officials at his alma mater, to which he’s donated tens of millions of dollars, and its president, Claudine Gay, have not heeded his advice on a variety of topics.
"The critical work of defending a culture of free inquiry in our diverse community cannot proceed if we let its shape be dictated by outside forces," read a letter signed by more than 500 faculty members.
“We have work to do as a school,” Jason Furman wrote on X. “But caving to donors & politicians will ultimately cost us our academic freedom & free speech.”
The FBI is investigating after a Mercer Island synagogue was vandalized with anti-Israel and antisemitic graffiti overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday.