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...learning the Persian poetry of the Shah Nameh and holding religious classes and celebrations. She says Zoroastrians are accepted in Iran because they "represent a proud history" and all Iranians, regardless of religion, enjoy celebrating the Zoroastrian New Year, Nowruz, because it's an excuse to buy clothes and eat sweets. Mehraban Firouzgary, the head priest in the Zoroastrian temple in Tehran, agrees that most Iranians regard the Zoroastrian minority favorably, but he worries about the community's survival. "Zoroastrians have lived in Iran for over 3,000 years," he says, "but there are so few left today...
...going on in North Korea,” she said, beginning her story of starvation and torture by her own government. “Instead of going to school, me and my siblings had to go up to the mountain and remove branches from pine trees in order to eat them,” said Jo, whose father was accused of treachery and thrown into jail, along with his pregnant wife, by the North Korean government because of his ties to South Korea. Won Myong Hong, a Harvard Business School student originally slated to speak at Friday?...
...Eat, Drink and be Merry. Socialize with fellow visitors to New York City at the Empire Hotel's guests-only "Caipirinha Thursday" in the hotel's lobby bar. You'll get complimentary hors d'oeuvre and Sagatiba caipirinhas, a Brazilian cocktail of rum and limes. The mixers happen on Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (See 10 things to do in New York.) 44 West 63rd Street, New York City...
...faith does not have any holidays in December, the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, took place at the end of October. Hillel set up a booth for Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights that begins at sundown on December 21 this year. “It is traditional to eat really oily foods on Hanukkah, such as the sufganiot,” said Rebecca D. Gillette ’10, Hillel’s vice president for community relations, describing the jelly-filled doughnuts that adorned the table. While the Baha’i Faith does not have any specific...
...about people,” she says, “meeting the amazing people who are living and working and visiting Harvard, because you can’t replace that.”As a member of the Lowell House Senior Common Room, Lewis has the opportunity to eat and talk—activities that she considers of the utmost importance—with undergraduates and members of the Lowell community. She says that she loves the opportunity to learn from the students and often finds herself mostly listening to them rather than talking herself. In such an intellectual community...