Today's Chronicle of Higher Ed reports: Jordan's Hashemite University has announced that it will establish a new distance-learning university, to be called the Arab American University for Distance Learning. It's scheduled to begin operating by November 2002. Intriguing thing to me is that the long article (http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001082701u.htm) says nothing whatever about the use of the word "American" in the name, nor does there seem to be anything American about it.