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Over the course of my life, I have pondered many improbable situations. For example, what would it be like to play first base for the Atlanta Braves? What would it be like to work as Anna Kournikova’s live-in masseuse? Just how many Muslim terrorists could I kill if the military would ignore my age and let me serve as a sniper? But I never pondered what life would be like as a Jewish student at the University of Texas at Austin – that is, until I read a letter written by 27 anti-Semites and self-hating Jews who teach there. The...

TAMPA -- Former University of South Florida instructor Mazen Al-Najjar flew to Bahrain on Thursday, a move his family hoped would end a seven-year legal saga. But new complications arose late in the evening when an official with the Embassy of Bahrain in Washington, D.C., said his country would reject Al-Najjar when he arrived. Jamal Rowaie, second secretary at the embassy, told the Times that the two-week visa Al-Najjar obtained was intended for "ordinary people" who want to visit the tiny Middle Eastern country. He did not know why the visa was granted in the first place. "His case is...

TAMPA -- A Palestinian professor was deported to an undisclosed Middle Eastern country Thursday, one day after the university he formerly taught at filed a lawsuit seeking to fire his brother-in-law because it thinks he has ties to terrorism. Mazen Al-Najjar left the country at 9 a.m., ending his seven-year legal battle to remain in the United States, according to his attorney, Joe Hohenstein. He would not reveal Al-Najjar's destination until his client safely landed in that country. Al-Najjar, who has a doctorate in engineering and has taught Arabic language classes at the University of South Florida, spent more than...