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Harvard Yard and Harvard Square are seen from above in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Harvard, the oldest and richest college in the U.S., paid almost $1 billion to terminate a wrong-way bet on interest rate swaps that it had entered in 2004 to finance expansion in Allston. Photographer: Michael Fein/Bloomberg 14eliterunnersplaces Michael Fein/Bloomberg

Harvard University

Harvard University administrators surreptitiously monitored the e-mail addresses of 16 deans during the fall of 2012, the Globe found.

In a statement including a partial apology, the university said the search was prompted by an investigation into a possible media leak involving the school’s cheating scandal.

Harvard faculty members expressed shock, dismay, and anger following the Globe’s report.

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