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WASHINGTON (AP) — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, according to President Barack Obama. “His demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity,” Obama said. A small team of Americans killed bin Laden in a firefight at a compound in Pakistan and took custody of bin Laden’s remains, the president said Sunday in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House. Few details were immediately available of the operation that resulted in bin Laden’s death, although the president said none of the Americans involved was harmed. A jubilant crowd gathered outside
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Americans celebrate outside the White House in Washington, D.C., after hearing that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
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Khayat honored for continued contributions to Ole Miss BY HEATHER APPLEWHITE The Daily Mississippian
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Chancellor Emeritus Robert Khayat stands in front of the Brandt Memory House, home of his office at Ole Miss. Khayat, who earned his Master of Law at Yale, has been president of the NCAA foundation, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, an M-Club Alumni and most recently honored with the naming of the new law center after him.
He started as a student, then progressed to a professional athlete, lawyer, professor and chancellor. Now, Chancellor Emeritus Robert Khayat has the University’s new $50 million law school named after him. Khayat said having the new building named after him is an overwhelming honor. “It’s incomprehensible really, and it’s overwhelming,” Khayat said. “Certainly, my family and I are grateful and thankful, but at the same time it is not something that you ever expect to happen to you.” After being chosen Professor of the Year in 1993 and 1994, Khayat became the chancellor, a position he served in from 1995 until he retired in 2009. Even though Khayat’s name is the one on the building, he said that it represents so many more people. “When I was chancellor, we really had a team of people who worked together on different projects, and so although my name is on the building, I see that as being representative of all those people, and I’m talking about a lot of people,” Khayat said. “Not just 10 or 20, but everybody at Ole Miss, plus the people that supported
it: the architects, the contractors, just everybody who made it a reality.” Former Dean of Law Parham Williams taught and worked with Khayat for many years. Williams said Khayat was a committed student when he was here. “He was a very fine student, always prepared, very serious, very conscientious in his preparation for class,” Williams said. “He had the intellectual resources and the general ability to be a very successful and effective lawyer.” Williams said that he chose Khayat as his associate dean for many reasons. “I was dean of the law school, and I appointed him as my associate dean,” Williams said. “I did that because I recognized his unusual skills in what I call people management, that is, he’s wonderfully winsome in his personality and able to quickly establish a useful, friendly rapport with his students and with his faculty colleagues and with others.” Williams said Khayat was always good to bring to seminars as assistant dean. “He was the cynosure of all eyes and people flocked around to get to see him and talk to him and he just always produced a See KHAYAT, PAGE 6
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