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Fit for a king

The emir of Kuwait passed his hand along an antique view of the Dartmouth campus, engraved in 1851. Outside the palace it was 115°, which was, according to Provost Barry Scherr, "a little unusual for this New Englander." What brought the emir and the provost together was the renewal, until 2013, of Dartmouth's advisory agreement with the American University of Kuwait, the Persian Gulf nation's first private liberal arts university.

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