when many former students from Jordan and Palestine sent e-mails to my wife and me expressing their sorrow for the terrorist attacks. One student said that Lois and I were the only Americans he knew, and he had to tell us that the “terrorists did not represent him or the Arab and Muslim world of which he is a part.”

The ongoing love and affection shared with these students and other contacts in many parts of the Middle East have become one of the most satisfying aspects of my professional career. It is especially rewarding to see many of these former students moving into positions of responsibility and influenced in public and private organizations.

A project that opened many opportunities for making a different kind of contribution and developing constructivemen by 5.1 per cent.

GETTY - STOCK Gender pay gap 'fundamentally misleading' and promotes 'victim mentality' – study claims

The Equal Pay Day campaign does nothing to advance women in the workforce Kate Andrews

The study, which involved data from the Office for National Statistics, appears to blow apart the claims made by the feminist Fawcett Society which says the pay gap is 14.1 per cent in favour of men. The report comes as leading women at the BBC have been complaining about their relative pay to male colleagues after the salaries over £150,000 a year were published. The IEA report focussed on the Equal Pay Day campaign aimed at closing the alleged gap in wages and argued it was based on a “myth”. The IEA also pointed out that