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Besides USC and MIT, the compact has been the subject of fierce debate at several other campuses that received it.

The bill, which narrowly passed the state’s Democratic-led legislature last month, triggered fierce opposition from Los Angeles and other coastal cities, where housing prices are among the nation’s highest.

But, for now, he remains an ally of the Venezuelan opposition and a fierce opponent of Maduro.

I watched helplessly in the early 1990s as dementia consumed the fierce intellect that defined my grandmother.

At Dartmouth College, another of the schools invited to join the compact, President Sian Beilock wrote that she is “deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence.”