Vartan Gregorian
publication date: Monday, August 11, 2014 (part of Summer 2014)
category: 
Education
clue: Older than the Middle Eastern nation where he was born, this academic spent eight years asking prospective students, "What can brown do for you?"
explanation: Gregorian was the president of Brown University from 1989 to 1997. He was born in modern-day Iraq in 1934. more…
difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, LaVonne Lemler, Chris Lemler, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Denise Sawicki, Erik Bates, and Aaron Shurtleff
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