Word: aga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battling has already shown. For the September finale, the action will heat up even more, both on the 24.3-mile-long triangular course and along Newport's palazzo-lined shore, where the late-night partying has included the likes of Britain's Prince Andrew and the Aga Khan, patron of the Italian effort...
...December of 1981, Harvard Medical School officials announced a program to help develop the Aga Kahn Hospital and Medical College, Pakistan's largest medical school and teaching hospital, in conjunction with Palestinian spiritual leader Karim Aga Khan '59. Since then, Harvard Medical School doctors have dispensed valuable advice to Pakistani faculty. But Harvard's growing cosmopolitanism may turn out to work both ways. As events of last spring indicate, endowments and gifts from foreign countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, could develop into an important source of funding for Harvard programs. With that possibility have come questions about the conditions that could...
Others are called on to provide curricular advice, instead of closing existing programs, such as the plans which a group of HIID faculty are drawing up at the request of the Aga Khan for his proposed Third World university. The length of the training programs also varies--from the two year business management programs the B-School set up in Barcelona, Spain, Nicaragua, and Iran, to two-week long curriculum consultations and seminars such as the one Klitgaard and his colleagues presented to a Mexican university of public administration...
Harvey Brooks, Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, and Oleg Grabar. Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, are the two other faculty members on the committee...
Perkins--who will administer the funds through the HIID--declined to disclose the possible recommendations the committee will eventually make, explaining. "It's his [the Aga Khan's] judgment as to whether the alternatives are to be made public...