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| | 1/23/04 Times Higher Education Supplement |
 | | Most telling were the decreases in the number of students from the Middle East, down 10 per cent from the previous year, with drops of 25 per cent each from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and 15 per cent from the United Arab Emirates. |
 | | Rebecca Wasserman, president of the United States Student Association, said there was a connection between the low numbers in the US, the high numbers in Canada and the difficulties facing foreign students in her country. |
 | | The USSA has been fighting "racial profiling" of foreign students and the Border Security Act, which places a "higher standard of scrutiny" on countries the State Department believes to be "sponsors of terrorism", such as Cuba, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, Libya and Syria. |
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