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...task, finishing third behind Princeton and Columbia in the Princeton Invitational and then second behind Yale in the Yale Women’s Fall Intercollegiate Invitational. Harvard was able to bounce back by winning the 15-team ECAC Division I Championships. Sheldon, sophomore Sarah Harvey, Balmert, and junior Ali Bode finished first, second, third, and fourth, respectively. The team’s first round score of 296 was a Crimson record, and the squad’s overall score of 600 was an ECAC Championship low. Sheldon won her second straight individual crown in the Gutshall Invitational in October...
...Ali S. A. Asani ’77, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and cultures, said that the Aga Khan has demonstrated that Muslim values and Western ideas are not incompatible...
...Sunnis, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, do not follow a hereditary system of selecting leadership. By contrast, Shias trace a direct line from Fatima, the Prophet’s daughter, and her husband Ali to a spiritual leader, or imam, with the power to interpret the faith...
...Similarly, Harvard Islamic Society president Tariq N. Ali ’09 said the group does not make use of Memorial Church for any organizational purposes...
...Because Larijani's political comback certainly had the blessing of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei - who wields executive power in Iran - an analyst in Tehran told TIME it signals that Khamenei, the ultimate arbiter in Iranian politics, may be prepared to sanction challenges to Ahmadinejad's reelection next year. Whether or not Larijani becomes a presidential candidate, he is likely to use his high-profile post as parliamentary speaker to question Ahmadinejad's policies and offer alternatives. That, along with Khamenei's ambivalence about Ahmadinejad's political future, could weaken the incumbent's authority and prepare the ground...