Word: aga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stealing the Aga Khan's prize
Shergar was bred, raised and raced by the Aga Khan, 46, who retains 15% ownership and owns the $2.3 million Ballymany stud farm as well. In a two-season European career beginning in 1980, Shergar won six of his eight races, including the Irish and English Derbies, by impressive margins. He was voted Europe's Racehorse of the Year in 1981. The Aga Khan reportedly turned down a $30 million purchase offer from an American for Shergar. The eventual $18.3 million price is the fourth highest in breeding history...
...leading Middle Eastern scholars at Harvard include Nadav Safran, professor of Government and reportedly a search committee member. A. J. Meyer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies and a lecturer on Economics: and Oleg Grabar '50, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art. All three were out of the country yesterday...
...occasionally strident anti-American rhetoric, followed suit five days later. That left the field open for a stable of dark horses. The first straw poll, conducted behind the closed doors of the Security Council's chambers, gave the necessary minimum of nine votes to Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 48, a Harvard-educated Iranian citizen who was the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977. But there was one hitch: his detractors included Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky, who, because he represents one of the council's five permanent members, was entitled to veto any candidate...
...Aga Khan gave $11.5 million to Harvard and MIT to establish a joint program for the study and preservation of Islamic architecture...