Re: A Taliban Comeback?

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> The Asian Age
> http://www.asianage.com/
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> 25 May 2006
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> YaleGlobal Online
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> A Taliban Comeback?
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One MUST consider the source, and it seems that Yale would be interested 
in a Taliban resurgence as a sign that one of their students has done 
well. (...besides George W. Bush, who also had (has?) Taliban business 
connections. Not drugs, oil.)

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110008127

The day after the New York Times profile appeared, Haym Benaroya, a 
professor at Rutgers, wrote to Mr. Shaw expressing disbelief that Mr. 
Hashemi, who has a fourth-grade education and a high school equivalency 
certificate, could be at Yale. Mr. Shaw replied that he indeed had 
ânon-traditional roots [and] very little formal education but personal 
accomplishments that had significant impact.â

JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL

Taliban Man at Yale
The story thus far.

Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST

Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last month Larry 
Summers resigned as president of Harvard; today Libyan dictator Moammar 
Gadhafi will speak by video to a conference at Columbia University that 
his regime is cosponsoring. (Columbia wonât answer questions about how 
much funding it got from Libya or what implied strings were attached.) 
Then thereâs Yale, which for three weeks has refused to make any comment 
or defense beyond a vague 144-word statement about its decision to admit 
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemiâa former ambassador-at-large of the murderous 
Afghan Talibanâas a special student.
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110008127