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...patriotism of the lawyer who upholds the sixth amemdment and rigorously defends Bin Laden would be “akin to that of the firefighters and policement in New York City,” Dershowitz says...
...City Council has been trying to get money out of Harvard for years. Last week, however, they went too far. In its Sept. 24 meeting, the Council considered an order urging Harvard to donate as much as $5 million to the victims of the Sept. 11 attack because the bin Laden family has given money to the University. While the language referring to the family was eventually removed, the decision by the council to pass the amended order was highly inappropriate in the current political atmosphere, especially given that Harvard has already showed its generosity...
...sponsor of the order, Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, based his demands on two newspaper articles: one reporting that Harvard had received money from the bin Laden family, and the other stating that some victims’ families would not be covered by insurance. Reeves, notorious for his grandstanding, simply put two and two together...
However, while Osama bin Laden’s half-brother Baker bin Laden has donated to the University, neither he nor any University donors have in any way been associated with terrorist acts. The bin Laden family is quite large, with Osama one of 52 children, and the family has condemned the mass murder that Osama appears to have perpetrated. The bin Laden scholarships go to deserving law and design students, and the assumption that a donor with the same name—or family, or appearance—must be a terrorist is a dangerous...
Numbers about withdrawals at Harvard were unavailable this weekend, although the New York Times reported yesterday that a bin Laden relative had just withdrawn from the University...