With Little More Than Hope, Iraqi Colleges Try to Rebuild

After 35 years of Saddam, educators contend with too much violence and too little money from the U.S. and its allies

By CHRISTINA ASQUITH

Baghdad, Iraq

Behind coils of barbed wire and stacks of sandbags, the new minister of higher education laid out his plans to the presidents of Iraqi universities. Saddam Hussein was imprisoned. The American...

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