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Jimmy Lai laughing in his office in Hong Kong in 2020. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Today from the Free Press. . . a modest proposal for top profs, a Chinese intimidation campaign, updates from the campaign trail, and The Guardian worries that war is bad for the environment.
But first, our lead story. . .
Computer scientist Mauricio Karchmer was an MIT lecturer for four years. He loved his job—until Hamas’s attack on October 7. In the…

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