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Last year, Harvard College received a total of $878,000 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, according to Clantha McCurdy, associate vice chancellor of financial assistance at the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education’s Office of Student Financial...
...Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder joined the chorus of concern, with the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung reporting that the German leader had warned Washington "that an attack on Iraq could crack Mr. Bush's international anti-terror coalition." Schroeder added that "Germany itself would deploy troops to an Iraqi mission under one condition - that the Iraqi government approved the mission." In other words, not unless they're invited in by Saddam...
...university has an extensive marketing campaign all over the world to attract foreign students," says Jörg Severin, the chancellor. It?s a good deal too: foreign students pay no tuition to study in Germany. Because nearly all of the hijackers and their accomplices were formally enrolled at universities and had legal residence in Germany, they could easily travel around Europe or go home to the Middle East, from where they could visit Afghanistan without arousing suspicion. And college students in Germany frequently take eight or nine years to finish their studies, giving them plenty of time to move...
...university: the worlds leading repository of higher learning, and the social and economic power that comes with it. Harvard, they aptly point out, is held as a symbol of American higher education to be both rallied around and railed against by thousands. They quote Clark Kerr, the legendary ex-Chancellor of the University of California-Berkeley: Somebody needs to know everything about each college and university but only about Harvard does everybody need to know something...
...Within the Vice-chancellor's office, Maulana Marghoob says "they were acts of individuals and were not something guided by religion. We condemn the attacks." He said that suspects within the Muslim community who carried out acts that did not correspond with Muslim teaching should be tried by their co-religionists and not by others. Later he said that if evidence were provided by the U.S. pointing to Osama bin Laden's guilt he should be handed over to an "international tribunal" for trial. Asked to explain the Taliban's actions in Afghanistan, the vice-chancellor said...