Word: aga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aga Khan IV '58 and Sadruddin Aga Khan '54 have donated the funds for the mosque which the Harvard Islamic Society is planning to build in Cambridge, the CRIMSON learned last night...
...Hossein Nasr 4G, president of the group, refused, however, to confirm reports that the Aga had contributed funds for the mosque, and his uncle the price of the land. Nasr said the two "have donated a large proportion" and are "very much interested in the project...
Pakistan raised diplomatic eyebrows by putting its money on horsy Playboy Aly Khan as its permanent delegate to the United Nations. Aly's appointment struck some as a consolation prize for his failure to succeed his father as the top (Aga) Khan. A citizen of Iran, he promised to take an "active interest...
Such an analysis depends upon two questionable assumptions. First, it assumes that the Harvard degree produces the additional income of the Harvard alumnus. According to this theory, Karim Aga Khan makes 1,000,000 times as much as his stable boy because he went to Harvard, and the young genius from Slippery Rock gets richer than the idiot down the block because of the benign influence of the Harvard faculty...
...tall handsome youth raced through the rain at London Airport to a waiting plane. With His Highness Prince Karim, fourth Ago Khan, 20, and 49th Imam of the world's Ismaili Moslems, was his father, Prince Aly Khan, bypassed by the late Aga in deciding his successor. Two days later in the African city of Dar Es Salaam in Tanganyika, on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, Aga Khan IV was acclaimed in the first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia...