April 23, 2004

In Central Asia, an American Professor Finds Hostility Spiked With Cynicism

By ELINOR BURKETT

It was the first day of the new academic year, and I was already stumped. A new Fulbright professor of journalism, I had arrived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, just a week earlier, and had managed to figure out what to teach in the absence of a university catalog and to craft a syllabus for my course without an academic calendar. But with my first class due to begin in 10 minutes, I still couldn't devise a way to get into my classroom here in this former Soviet republic.

"Klyuch?" I

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