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...fall 2002 after Tom Paulin allegedly made anti-Israel comments to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, the English department withdrew an invitation to controversial poet’s just days before he was slated to speak at the lecture...
...Iraqi invasion. The last thing it needed, as the June 30 deadline creeps closer, was a grotesque scene that immediately conjured images of another American nightmare--Mogadishu, when a Somali mob killed 18 U.S. soldiers and dragged an Army Ranger's corpse through the streets. The Clinton Administration withdrew U.S. forces soon afterward, leaving that benighted nation to its warlords...
...Spanish-government scholarships to study economics. "At first he was gracious and engaging," says Miguel Pérez Martín, a professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he met Fakhet as a fellow student in 1996. Over the next few years the Tunisian withdrew from his studies and the world in general. "He grew incommunicative, and he told me, sometime in 1999 or 2000, that he was having a personal crisis," Pérez Martín recalls. "He spent more and more time in the mosques, and soon he wasn't able to listen anymore, only...
...population as well. Slates of Islamic candidates dominated by Hamas have taken control of the student councils at many universities across the territories. At Islamic University in Gaza City, the Hamas-led list took 83% of seats in a vote held a few months ago. Arafat's Fatah Party withdrew at the last minute rather than experience humiliating defeat. I asked a law student, Ali Hejjy, 19, why Hamas was so popular. Because, he answered, "they run the university justly." By that he meant that unqualified sons of officials were not given places, students were allowed to disagree with professors...
...needs $8 billion? That's how much consumers overpay in mortgage fees each year, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Yet last week HUD withdrew a proposal that would force mortgage lenders to bundle fees into a simple binding quote that consumers could use while shopping. While consumers wait for reform, here are ways to guard against excessive closing costs, which average $700 a mortgage...