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Najarian's life had seemed the very model of an American success story. The son of Armenian immigrants, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, on a football scholarship and later turned down an offer to play for the Chicago Bears in favor of going to medical school at the University of California at San Francisco. He stayed there for a residency in surgery, joined the faculty and soon became one of the first practitioners in a glamorous new field of medicine: organ transplantation...
After dinner, the crowd moved to the Eliot House library to listen to classical Persian music played on the santoor (a dulcimer-like instrument) and donbak (drums). Audience members also heard a recitation of Persian poetry and a lecture by Mashots Professor of Armenian Studies James R. Russell on the origin of the celebration...
Egoyan, born in Cairo to Armenian parents, moved to Canada when he was three. They were the only Armenian family in an otherwise Anglo community, where the director says he "tried desperately to assimilate at all costs." With warmth characteristic throughout the afternoon, he recounts anecdotes from those times. "My sister's name is Eve," Egoyan says, "I had to go through my childhood with jokes about Atom and Eve.'" The director was attracted to drama from an early age, finding in it a way of creating, "a system where people could behave the way I wanted them to, since...
Mashtots Professors of Armenian Studies JamesR. Russell said he was "all for" the proposal butstill listed several potential problems with thecalendar...
Garnik Nanagulian, deputy chief of mission of the Armenian embassy, said he shared Maresca's fear of outside involvement...