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Saif Qaddafi and Me

There is a strong sentiment that academics and institutions that collaborated with such an odious regime as Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's – often under political pressure, no doubt – suffered a grave lapse of judgment. But many of the critics would fall over each other for a chance to advise China's leaders.

CAMBRIDGE – Not long ago, a Harvard colleague wrote to me that Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, a son of Libya’s dictator, would be in town and wanted to meet me. He is an interesting fellow, my colleague said, with a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); I would enjoy talking to him, and I might be able to help his thinking on economic matters.

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