Colleges to battle over shrinking pool of student recruits in coming years

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  1. Say, you don’t suppose legally killing upwards of 60,000,000 infant students in the womb since 1973 has anything to do with a reduced pool of potential new ones being alive 18-odd years later, do you?

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