Word: rahmatullah
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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...
...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 odd,” as he was a not “special-status student” like Rahmatullah and had previously been a member of the anti-Soviet resistance, not the Taliban...
Heller agreed that any comparison between Rahmatullah and Farivar would be erroneous...
...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...
Richard Shaw, who served as Yale’s dean of admissions from 1993 to 2005, told the New York Times Magazine that Yale admitted Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Taliban’s former chief envoy, because the school had once had a student of similar caliber apply but that it had “lost him to Harvard” and “didn’t want that to happen again...