Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman says his alma mater Harvard refused to fire president Claudine Gay because the school’s governing board didn’t want people to think it was “kowtowing” to him. “I have been told now by two reporters that one of the factors that made it challenging for the @Harvard board to fire Gay was that they were concerned it would look like they were kowtowing to me,” Ackman wrote on his X social media account on Monday evening. Ackman, who waged a public campaign by penning an open letter to Harvard’s board on Sunday demanding Gay’s ouster,...