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“I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence,” Beilock said in a statement.

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Around this time each year, there is always renewed emphasis on the goal of independence from the party's leadership.

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“The document also includes principles with which we disagree,” Ms. Kornbluth writes, “including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution.”

The U.S. stepped up its intelligence-gathering efforts on Greenland this summer, directing intelligence-agency heads to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American involvement on the island, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The academic finds it striking that after 64 years of independence, three-quarters of the population have an education level below primary school, while only 3% have attained higher education.

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