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Harvard sexual harassment case scars the institution as well as victims

  • Written by Jeffrey W. Rubin, Associate Professor of History, Boston University
Harvard faculty member accused of decades of sexual harassment. Gil C/Shutterstock

In the wake of recent #MeToo revelations, Harvard University has begun to take action against a tenured professor whom the university found guilty of sexual harassment in the 1980s and who now stands accused of harassing women undergraduates, graduate students,...

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