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...government is demanding back rent, and private Kuwaiti landlords are doing the same. Free medical care and public schooling, heretofore rights for expatriates, are history. Private schooling is still possible, but the 50% government subsidy has been ended. "Why should we aid them?" asks Education Minister Sulaiman al-Bader. "Most of them went to school during the occupation where they sang the Iraqi anthem and studied Saddam's speeches. How could our own children learn sitting next to them...
...ASTONISHED by Hazem Ben-Gacem's vitriolic and patronizing personal attack on Bader El-Jeaan printed in The Crimson on 28 February. The piece very nearly violates the norms of appropriate and constructive public discourse so highly and rightly prized by academic communities...
Happily, the spectre of Pan-Arab nationalism is hardly as threatening as Mr. Ben-Gacem's article might lead us to believe. "Dear Bader," his article intones insultingly, "the Arab masses are united. Maybe if you hadn't lived in Belgium for 12 (sic--it was only three) years you would understand what I am talking about...
...would like to respond to Hazem Ben-Gacem's insulting questioning of my knowledge of the Middle East. In his article, "Pan-Arabism Is Not Dead," (Feb. 28), Mr. Ben-Gacem rudely asserts: "Dear Bader, the Arab masses are united. Maybe if you hadn't lived in Belgium for 12 years, you would understand what I am talking about...
...Gacem, as a matter of common courtesy, I would appreciate your not addressing me by my first name, in such a familiar tone. Contrary to what you might believe, I am not your brother. I do not even know you, and you obviously know nothing about me. Bader A. El-Jeaan