KHAN OF HARVARD:

‘Warm, Happy Place’

MOMING back to school, with a year of travel behind me, I’m Odriven by a desire to know more. This is a warm and happy place when it is your last year and you know what you want.” […]

Though all this makes Prince Karim one of the world’s richest businessmen, it wouldn’t necessarily make him a big man at Harvard. He has become one, however, because of his brains (he is an A student), his brawn (he is outside left on the varsity soccer team) and his quiet ability to make friends (“I am not precisely timid-friendship is inevitable for me.”).

Deadly serious about his high role, modest about his wealth (“What I really inherited were all the mosques and burial grounds”), Prince Karim has not only won over his classmates, who call him a “good guy” but has handied his ticklish public relations with rare taste. Of girls (his grandfather had four wives, his father two) he maintains a rigid silence except for saying, “I thank God for women.”