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Economics professor and former Harvard University president Larry Summers, who recently stepped back from public duties following revelations about his ties with Jeffrey Epstein, opened his class at the Ivy League institution Wednesday with an admission of shame over his communications with the disgraced late financier.

In a TikTok video recorded Wednesday by a student inside a Harvard lecture theater, Summers addressed his past before beginning his economics lecture.

“Some of you will have seen my statement of regret,” Summers began, “expressing my shame with respect to what I did in communication with Mr. Epstein and that I’ve said that I’m going to step back from public activity for a time. But it’s very important to fulfill my teaching obl

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