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Rafik Hariri (Hon.’86), the former prime minister of Lebanon and a former BU trustee, was honored at a memorial service March 14 in the School of Management building, which is named for him. Hariri, 60, was assassinated last month in a car bomb explosion in Beirut. “He was a visionary statesman, a major benefactor, and a sponsor of hundreds of students who studied at Boston University,” said President ad interim Aram Chobanian (at podium). Hariri established the Hariri Foundation, which has sent more than 3,000 Lebanese students to universities throughout the world. The largest number of them attended BU. Hariri also helped engineer Lebanon’s political and economic recovery from a 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, and helped restore the decimated commercial area of downtown Beirut. “He faced the mind-boggling challenge of trying to rebuild the country out of rubble — literally rubble,” said SMG Dean Louis Lataif (SMG’61, Hon.’90). Photo by Kalman Zabarsky
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