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...time, many faculty members were “suspicious” that study abroad “probably represented some plot to evade the benefits of a Harvard education,” said John H. Coatsworth, who chaired the committee charged with reviewing and approving students’ petitions to study abroad...
Students wishing to study abroad had to submit “immense quantities of paperwork” requiring multiple signatures from different offices as well as an essay detailing the academic necessity of the proposed international experience, Coatsworth said...
Prior to the OIP’s founding, the Study Abroad Office—which comprised a small part of OCS—organized the College’s international academic offerings...
...broad debate has opened on opposition websites questioning the tactics, the organization and the kind of support the movement needs or doesn't need from abroad. By outmaneuvering the opposition, says Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, "the government has shown it is capable of learning, and the opposition has to do the same. Going out into the street can't be its only tactic." (Where was the opposition during the Revolution Day rallies in Iran...
...That's because the law itself created the means for the PEPs in the Senate investigation to gain that access. The Patriot Act made it illegal for individuals or businesses in the U.S. to accept money generated by corruption abroad, deeming it as being complicit to money laundering. But in doing so, the law exempted hedge funds, realtors and escrow agents, and made it possible for foreign officials to use American lobbyists, lawyers and university officials to get around the money laundering...