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Originally Posted by Thomas Paine
How much funding from overseas does it take before we realize that it has significantly influence academia to promote an agenda?
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Robert Heinlein: 'I never learned from a man who agreed with me.'
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Mr. Paine,
I read through the provided links with the above quote in mind. Thank you for posting them, by my read I formed the following impressions.
1) Harvard was hypocritical in accepting Saudi money, given their views on homosexuality, and then turning on the ROTC for the same reason.
2) $20 million doesn't buy you much Islamic influence at Harvard, remember this was the school who's endowment was so profitable they were considering doing away with undergraduate tuition before 2008 hit.
3) Kagan and Esposito are misguided and myopic at best.
4) The Saudi prince's allocating money to two colleges in the US and the Middle East for greater education and cultural understanding isn't a bad idea, he lost me with his views on American responsibility for 9/11, kudos to Rudy Giuliani for telling him to shove his $10 million check given these views.
Finally, having worked almost extensively with Ivy League graduates my experience, other than an annoying persistent sense of entitlement and increasing lack of "common sense" ( no monopoly here), on the whole they tend to be very bright and capable once you hit them over the head a few times.