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Poland's upcoming runoff presidential election is yet another European nail-biter of populist versus centrist. The outcome matters far beyond Poland's borders, though, because

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Imagine if the snazzy university you wanted to go to had $2.7 billion of its funding withheld, and then $100 million more.

If there was a risk that it might not even be able to enroll you legally,

if the country it was in stopped even making student visa appointments, threatening a deep

dive into your social media accounts looking for wrong think, you'd just go elsewhere, wouldn't

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