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By Karin Fischer

Dartmouth College is one of several American universities to announce it is sending faculty members with medical and global health expertise to Haiti to help with relief efforts following last month’s devastating earthquake.

But the Ivy League institution’s president, Jim Yong Kim, may be unusual among higher education leaders in the depth of his ties to the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Dr. Kim, who became Dartmouth’s president…