Charges Dropped Against Gates

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| Tue Jul. 21, 2009 10:25 AM PDT

Prosecutors in Cambridge, Mass., won't pursue charges against Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Harvard scholar arrested last Thursday after trying to enter his own house.

UPDATE: Gates spoke to the Post Tuesday afternoon and told them, understandably, he's "outraged."

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