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...culture,” said Frommer, who is currently traveling in Japan and is preparing to write a senior thesis on health care in that country.Pace said that it was his political views that led to his involvement in the Society of Arab Students.As he read about the Middle Eastern conflict, Pace said, he “became more sympathetic to the Arab point of view.”“So when I got to Harvard, largely because of my politics, largely because I was a non-Zionist Jew,” Pace said, the Arab students organization...
...down the origins of popular Indian dishes like the biryani, korma, vindaloo, and dhansak, she makes the surprising discovery that most of Indian cuisine is, in fact, a mongrel creation. As she shows, many of the dishes that seem most quintessentially "Indian" to Western palates are reworkings of Middle Eastern prototypes brought to India by immigrants and invaders. Over the centuries, Turks, Mongols and Persians rode down into India, bringing their love of meat, oil and nuts to a land of Buddhists, Jains, and Hindus, who favored vegetables, milk and spices. The result, says Collingham, was that "these apparently mismatched...
...friends come and watch us play and support us.” The game was the first contest of the season between the two Ivy rivals. Last year, the teams met six times, resulting in four Harvard victories—including a 6-5 win at the Eastern Championships in the final game of the season. The Crimson’s first chance for revenge against the Bears will likely come on April 8 in Providence. “I think we are going to learn a lot from this game and get our heads together,” Gardner...
...free of controversy, however, as a few students expressed doubts about the concert’s claims to nonpartisanship. “We don’t think this is just an innocent event,” said Alireza M. Doostdar, a Ph.D student in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies. “It cannot be divorced from the current political situation.” Prior to the event, Doostdar and others distributed flyers questioning the intentions of the concert organizers. At the back of the crowd, a few students held signs reading...
...free of controversy, however, as a few students expressed doubts about the concert’s claims to nonpartisanship. “We don’t think this is just an innocent event,” said Alireza M. Doostdar, a Ph.D student in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies. “It cannot be divorced from the current political situation.” Prior to the event, Doostdar and others distributed flyers questioning the intentions of the concert organizers. At the back of the crowd, a few students held signs reading...