Friday, March 10, 2006

How many more donations will we get?

Here are a few gifts that have come from Arab countries over the past year: from Saudi Arabia $20,000,000 each to Harvard and Georgetown; from Kuwait $25,000,000 to the Red Cross; from Kuwait, Qatar and UAE $100,000,000 for hurricane relief; from Qatar major gifts (in the $10-50,000,000 range) to Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Commonwealth and Cornell; from Dubai $1,000,000 to U Penn.

The person who evaluates donations by the Saudis says that the Dubai Ports flap "makes you think twice" and the attacks on the deal are "racist".

And, you think our elected representatives have done the right thing?

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