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Ex-Harvard President Larry Summers has stepped down from his teaching duties at Harvard University following growing outrage over messages between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The university confirmed the move Wednesday evening, marking a turn in Summers’ decades-long association with the Ivy League college.

The move also came after students at the college in Summers’ economics class released a video Wednesday that showed the professor saying he felt shame over his ties with Epstein.

According to a statement released to The Harvard Crimson, Summers’ co-teachers will finish the final three sessions of his current classes, and he is not slated to teach next semester.

In addition, he will go on immediate leave from his direct

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