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...They have certainly been committed in the past. Several years ago, Harvard awarded University Officer status to a Texas couple in return for a sizable gift to the Kennedy School of Government. More recently, the Medical School endowed a chair in honor of Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, an alleged kidnapper who gave the school large sums of money. When climbing into bed with moneyed interests, the University should be extremely careful to keep its academic principles independent from its funding sources--a goal that will become more difficult (and more important) to uphold as fundraising is accelerated...
...record, it should be noted that the Texas couple and Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, while unsavory characters, did not attempt to exert any improper influence over Harvard's curriculum or threaten its academic integrity...
...Saudi Arabia, the only country named after a family, its leaders show little inclination to share power. On my trip in January, I met with His Highness Prince Fahd bin Salman, a thirtysomething, U.S.-educated grandson of the founding King, Abdul Aziz, known as Ibn Saud. Fahd is vice governor of the Eastern province. I asked him whether he thought there would still be an absolute monarchy in the 21st century...
...Saddam Hussein, who is no relation, to carve up Saudi Arabia. King Hussein supposedly would have reigned over the holy cities of Mecca and Medina as a sort of Iraqi viceroy (his ancestors ruled that part of Arabia until driven out by Abdul Aziz, founder of the House of Saud, before World War I). Outside Arabia, most analysts doubt Saddam would ever have shared power that...
Kuwait makes no secret of its gratitude to the Yanks. Sheik Saud Nasir al- Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S., outlined his country's policy in a January letter to Republican Representative Helen Bentley of Maryland. He said Kuwait planned "to award the largest proportion of contracts to U.S. companies, in recognition of the immense sacrifice the people of the United States are making in the liberation of Kuwait...