Word: convert
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...cashmere-style sweaters.While their Kennedy School classmates head off to jobs at the United Nations and on Capitol Hill, Carol Chyau and Marie So will launch an enterprise that will bring “Yashmere” from rural China to Western wardrobes.Chyau and So are hatching plans to convert the soft, cashmere-like yak down fiber from the Yunnan Province into high-quality yarn sold on the international knitters’ market.The two students say they want to use innovative business solutions to tackle development challenges. To improve living standards in rural communities in western China, they have launched...
...senior lecturer, Payzant will convert his experience in educational administration into material suitable for the classroom...
...team’s sixth-straight Northern Championship.Hartwick shut out Harvard in the first and third quarters and took a 4-1 lead into halftime.“We had our chances early on,” Farrar said. “We just didn’t convert.”Sophomore driver Vivian Liao scored twice to lead the Crimson.The championship game marked the final home game for Harvard’s four seniors: captain drivers Arin Keyser and Sarah Kennifer, goaltender Lydia Gardner, and 2M-O Molly Mehaffey.“It wasn?...
...Afghan Intolerance Re "A Convert's Plight" [april 3], on the case of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan who was prosecuted for converting to Christianity and eventually found asylum in Italy: As a British-born Muslim with royal Afghan ancestry, I find it deeply disturbing that Rahman was treated unfairly because of a corrupt interpretation of Islamic law. Tribal leaders intentionally misinterpret Islamic law to maintain power. No one should be forced to accept Islam, for submitting to coercion is not the same as heartfelt acceptance. Such twisted and extreme misuse of Islamic law affects Muslims as much as it affects...
...Followers of other religions who convert to another faith are not subject to such draconian and medieval penalties. Although the vast majority of Muslims are undoubtedly tolerant and happy to live in peace with their neighbors and those of other faiths, Islam lends itself to corruption by fundamentalist extremists who twist its teachings to serve their own perverted ends. Robert Readman Bournemouth, England...