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Andy Tiedemann, a spokesperson in the development office, said no Harvard students have called to object to the bin Laden fellowships...
...media, intrigued by the association of the bin Laden name and Harvard, have called University public relations officials repeatedly. University spokesperson Joe Wrinn said he has been called by “dozens and dozens of press agencies from all around the world,” including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe...
...From the start, to me, it was just very understandable how someone might get a misimpression,” Wrinn said. “If you remember back to the barrage of images that were coming across and the quick bits of information, you were hearing bin Laden, bin Laden, Harvard, bin Laden, so I think it was understandable that people might draw the wrong message...
Wrinn took issue with a Boston morning talk show which described Harvard as taking “blood money” from the bin Laden family...
...bin Laden family’s endowed fellowships totals $2 million, for use at Harvard’s law and design schools. Since the attacks, Harvard officials have stressed that the University would cease using the endowed funds if they found any explicit link with Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization...