John R. Silber, Who Led Boston University’s Renaissance, Dies at 86

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The longtime president built B.U. into a world-class research center and one of the nation’s largest private universities but attracted critics for crushing his opposition.http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/642562/s/23e3d9f2/mf.gif

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