March 20, 2011

Mideast Unrest Reawakens Concern Over Taint of Foreign Money

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Bahrain's prime minister, Sheik Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa

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Bahrain's prime minister, Sheik Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa

By Scott Carlson

In the summer of 2008, Lewis N. Walker, president of Lawrence Technological University, flew to Bahrain to deliver an honorary doctorate to Sheik Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa. The country's prime minister and crown prince was being honored for his support of a free-market economy and for "creating the infrastructure for an innovative and socially and environmentally sustainable society," according to a Lawrence Tech press release. The crown prince honored the university at about the same