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...Karim Aga Khan '59, spiritual leader of more than 14 million Ismaili Muslims and a prominent international philanthropist, is building a modern teaching hospital in Pakistan, and he wants some advice from his alma mater on how to go about...
Already under construction, the $300 million, 721-bed Aga Khan Hospital and Medical College is scheduled for completion in 1984. The Aga Khan will meet with President Bok and Harvard Medical School officials on Wednesday to sign an agreement under which Med School professors would help develop curricula, research plans and teaching methods that reflect health problems in Pakistan...
Grabar said last month he attended the conference partly because he is an authority on Islamic architecture, and partly to discuss a proposal by the Aga Khan to restore some Egyptian monuments. During the conference, he met with worldwide authorities and with Gehan el-Sadat, Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat's wife, who chairs a committee on the protection of Islamic monuments in Egypt...
Despite fears in the Reagan camp that Carter's maneuvers with Iran might thwart the 69-year-old challenger's bid, the President's "November surprise" is occurring about two weeks too late, Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, said...
Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iran, who has also been sharply critical of Carter administration policy during the crisis--"I have advice, but it certainly didn't do any good"--agrees that stubbornness and an unwillingness to bridge the cultural gap between the U.S. and Iran have prolonged the stalemate...