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The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities

May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.

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The policies that May Mailman has helped devised have sent shock waves through higher education, dividing faculty and alarming some students who see an effort to silence dissent.
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