Last year, Gee apologized for comparing the problem of coordinating the school's many divisions to the Polish army, an off-the-cuff remark that a Polish-American group called a "slanderous" display of bigotry and ignorance.

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The apparently off-the-cuff remark in an interview with Indian media astonished Pakistanis as much as Indians.

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