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...team has been meeting at least three times a week to prepare for the case along with their coaches, third-year Harvard Law School students Clifford Sarkin and Mushtaq Z. Gunja...

Author: By Raymond L. Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE NEWS IN BRIEF | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...team has two coaches, Clifford Sarkin and Mushtaq Z. Gunja, both 2Ls at Harvard Law School. The team also receives advice and guidance from Jerome P. Facher, an attorney with Hale and Dorr LLP who, according to Rao, was the basis for Robert Duvall’s character in the movie A Civil Action...

Author: By Patrick M. Mckee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mock Trial Team Ends Successful Season | 4/13/2004 | See Source »

composed of 96 round cards divided into eight suits, the Hindustani pack is called "Gunja-Kha," which means "relieving scalp." The suits bear such names as Ghulam, or slave, end Burart, or royal diploma, and the king, by keeping his hands busy playing cards, was unable to scratch his head or beard, keeping baldness at a minimum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library's Exhibit Features Unusual Hindustani Cards | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...values run from one to ten, with one the lowest. In the last four suits they run the opposite way with ten the lowest. A few of the more picturesque names of the suits are Ghulam, Slave; Chang, Harp; and Burart, Royal Diploma. The name of the pack is Gunja-Kha, which means "Relieving Scalp." They were invented to keep the hands of the king busy so that he would not scratch his head, or, as another version of the tale has it, so that he would not pull hairs out of his beard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Card Game Originally Devised to Keep Hindustani King From Pulling Beard | 11/1/1935 | See Source »

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