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...entourage's ongoing stay in luxurious quarters at the Charles Hotel. Despite the prince's history of alleged slavery and assault on police officers--a history that led Florida officials to ask that he be deported from the United States--Harvard schmoozed the billionaire Prince until he endowed a professorship in immunology at the Medical School...
...once said something like "all money in the service of good is good," but he never explained exactly how far that logic extends. For example, would Bok sell his soul to the devil for a million dollar professorship...
...trivial details, and Harvard's acceptance of an endowed chair is more than using bad money for good. By naming an endowed chair after him, Harvard allows Prince Turki to cover up for his atrocities--to buy a fresh image from Harvard U. "With the establishment of this new professorship," said Dean Tosteson, "a scholar who will work towards the goal of improving health and relieving the burden of sick and suffering will always be known at Harvard as the Prince Turki Professor...
...Prince Turki Professor who improves health? Who wants to relieve the burden of sick and suffering? Would Harvard name a professorship in civil liberties after Bull Connor? Endow a chair in international peace for Saddam Hussein...
According to Abe, an agreement establishing the post, which will be known as the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) Professorship of International Development, was signed on October...