Nicholas Dirks

University of California, Berkeley

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Nicholas Dirks is chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Ann Coulter is a right-wing provocateur who was scheduled to speak last week at UC Berkeley, where the "Free Speech Movement" began in the 1960s.

Ann Coulter: Now you see her… now you don't

Ann Coulter is a right-wing provocateur who was scheduled to speak last week at UC Berkeley, where the "Free Speech Movement" began in the 1960s.

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