Word: turki
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are not 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...
...Prince Turki affair reveals just how low Harvard will sink in its refusal to weigh financial gain against ethical propriety. If Harvard didn't know about the prince's past, it should have. Now that it does, it should give back the money and send Prince Turki packing...
Some residents also complained that cars driving the family of Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud apparently violated city rules by entering Mayor Thomas W. Danehy Park in North Cambridge and turning around on the playing fields...
...last Sunday, a three-car motorcade carrying Prince Turki's family arrived at Danehy Park. The family, staff and a group of Cambridge and Harvard police officers emerged from the vehicles. Someone then lowered the chain to the park's service road and the cars, including one white stretch limousine, proceeded into the park where they turned around on an athletic field...