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Wang was nominated for the prize this year, along with Israeli President Ezer Weizman and Pope John Paul II.
Shang said that when Wang came to the door, "We told him President Chen didn't want to see him."
Shorenstein Fellow and former East Asian editor for the London Times, Jonathan Mirsky said, "China being the place that it is, the president and the assistant would have been questioned by the Security Service why they allowed themselves to be in the same room as a 'criminal.'"
"This man [Chen Jia'er] is a guest of honor of the President of Harvard, and he excludes a distinguished Harvard student on purely political grounds, this is very extraordinary," Mirsky said.
In an effort sure to improve relations between Harvard University and its neighbors, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last Wednesday that the University would fund housing in the Boston and Cambridge areas with $20 million in loans, and another $1 million in grant money. This is an unprecedented contribution to...