The brilliance of the Lebanese

So I posted about the claim in Hariri rag that the new dean of the Medical School at AUB had won the Nobel Prize in medicine. Well, yesterday AUB issued a clarification. It said--I kid you not--1) that this guy did not really win the Nobel prize but that another Lebanese had won the prize years ago, and 2) that the new Dean of the Medical School, while he has not won the prize, may be winning it in the future due to his cutting edge research.