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...Amir Attaran, an international health researcher at Sachs' Center for International Development, praises the student activism on the issue of AIDS...
Today a few monuments still loom over Samarkand, overshadowing modern Soviet interlopers. From the immense ruin of Bibi-Khanym Mosque to Shah-I-Zinda's intimate alley of tombs and Tamerlane's resting place at Guri Amir Mausoleum, the city offers an imposing collection of intricately patterned towers, precise arches and azure domes. The Registan?a three-sided plaza of colossal mosaic portals, minarets and medressas (Islamic schools)?was the center of medieval Samarkand and remains the most impressive site (entry $1). In the market near Bibi-Khanym, something of the Silk Road survives as women hawk bread...
...Mindful of the fear of Japanese militarism throughout Asia that still lingers from World War II and restrained by the country's constitutional bar on military aggression, Japan proscribed its troops with curtailed rules of engagement. Their presence was meant to be more symbolic than confrontational. Says Lieut. Colonel Amir Mokady, who heads Israel's army liaison with the U.N. forces on the Golan, Israel is glad to have a big industrial nation like Japan participating in the peacekeeping force on its border. "They have a lot of influence on global points of view," he says...
...Amir Attaran, an international health researcher at CID, was the evening's primary speaker...
...learned this last Wednesday afternoon from Amir Attaran, a scholar at the Center for International Development (CID). The CID was holding the first meeting of its new study group for undergraduates as part of an effort to reach out to the College. That morning, The Crimson printed an editorial that seemed to suggest that the CID be dissolved "utterly and completely" because of its similarities to its predecessor, the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). After recalling the scandal that brought down the HIID, the editorial questioned "how much good" the CID does undergraduates, claiming that "research done by HIID...