WHAT'S UP WITH JOHNS HOPKINS?

After reading about Fouad "noble war" Ajami, I recalled that Paul Wolfowitz was a dean at Hopkins:

SAIS Dean Tapped for Post at Pentagon
President Bush announces intention to nominate Wolfowitz for No. 2 spot
By Greg Rienzi
The Gazette ["The newspaper of the Johns Hopkins University"]

February 12, 2001
VOL. 30, NO. 21

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies stands to lose a gifted leader, as President George W. Bush announced on Feb. 5 his intent to nominate Paul Wolfowitz, the school's dean for seven years, as deputy secretary of defense.

Check this crap out:

University President William R. Brody led the wave of gratitude and well-wishing to an individual who has repositioned SAIS from a Cold War orientation to an institution focused on the impact and challenges of globalization in the post-Cold War era.

"In the seven years that Paul has been at Johns Hopkins, a lot has changed. It's a different world now, in many respects," Brody said at the time of the White House announcement. "But SAIS is ready for it, because Paul and the school's faculty and staff have had the insight to discern what's important and the commitment to excellence necessary to maintain a leadership role in teaching and research. He has strengthened the faculty, grown the endowment, raised funds for student aid and enhanced the school's visibility among policy-makers in Washington and around the world.

"The bad news is that Johns Hopkins is losing a great dean," Brody said. "The good news is that the country is getting a very smart, very focused, clear-thinking leader as deputy secretary of defense. Paul Wolfowitz will serve the nation well."

Yeah, he's so damn smart he said there was no history of ethnic strife in Iraq! Here's more crap:

Eliot Cohen, professor and director of the Strategic Studies Program at SAIS, says he echoes the sentiments of President Brody in saying that while SAIS has lost a great dean, the Defense Department has gained a great mind.

"They usually get people for these high-level positions who are either broad or deep; what is unique about Paul Wolfowitz is that he is both," Cohen says.

"I have enjoyed working with him a lot. He has helped set a tone at SAIS that I feel will persist long after he has gone."