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Barney Frank

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid hi

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Barney Frank is sarcastically suggesting that Newt Gingrich, by prioritizing profit over education, discourages people from studying social sciences and humanities. He implies that Gingrich's focus on financial gain indirectly supports the decline of these fields because they are seen as less profitable.

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