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Associated Press - ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University trustees on Monday chose the provost of the University of Michigan as the Ivy League school's new president. Martha Pollack will become the second female president of Cornell after Elizabeth Garrett, who died of colon cancer in March after less than a year of leading the upstate New York school. Garrett was 52. Pollack said Garrett was very much in her thoughts as her appointment was announced. She said she wants to uphold the school's strong academic

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