<p>Many Yale alumni - both Republicans and Democrats - seem to agree that, whatever the motive, the decision to admit the Taliban Guy was ill-advised.
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<p>Bizarrely, it seems that (then) Admissions Director Shaw seems to have feared that if Yale didn’t grab him first, Harvard might have gone after him.</p>