Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is threatening to pull funding assistance from Columbia University because it invited Ahmadinejad to speak, and Silver doesn't like Ahmadinejad. It's not a matter of academic freedom, the Speaker says, but instead "attempting to legitimize this individual."
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