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Last month, when The New York Times Magazine reported that Yale had admitted former Taliban envoy Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former Yale admissions dean Richard Shaw told the Times that a foreigner of similar caliber had applied for “special-student status” and that Yale had “lost him to Harvard...
When contacted, Farivar—now a reporter for Dow Jones News Service—said that when he read The Times story, he too had wondered if Shaw had been referring to him. But he said that there “no way that [to] be sure” that Shaw had been talking about him, and that the former dean may in fact be “referring to another, more recent applicant.” He also said that “the comparison [between him and Rahmatullah] is a little...
...Shaw is the only person who can say for sure to whom he was referring when he spoke to The Times. A secretary in Shaw’s office said that he declined comment on the name of the student that he “lost” to Harvard, or on whether Farivar was the student that he had had in mind...
...Farivar] is who Shaw is referring to, then he is full of crap,” Heller said. “Farivar was not some agent of a criminal regime like Rahmatullah...
...fact, ripping into schooling is something homeschoolers have done with vigor and eloquence. "There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school," wrote the partly home-educated George Bernard Shaw. "It is a prison (where teachers) discourse without charm on subjects they don't understand and don't care about." Shaw's sentiment lives on in Sydney mother Mujahidah Flint, who withdrew two of her daughters from their Muslim school before the older one had finished Year 2. Flint felt the school wasn't honoring Islamic values, among other failings. Later, her view of school...