Published March 14, 2012, 12:00 AM


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Hamid Shirvani, left, the newly hired chancellor of North Dakota's university system, speaks on Tuesday to Duaine Espegard, the vice president of North Dakota's Board of Higher Education, in the student union of Bismarck State College in Bismarck shortly after the board voted 5-3 to hire Shirvani as chancellor.

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