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...March 19 story, "Persian Community Celebrates New Year," misstated the name of one of the co-sponsors. It is the Harvard Iranian Student Association (HISA), not Harvard Iranian Student Organization (HISO...

Author: By Laura C. Mckiernan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Persian Community Celebrates New Year | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...student movement to ask for American support for regime change in Iran.If the organizers were interested in drawing attention to Iran, perhaps they would have contacted an Iranian student organization. In fact, not a single member of the Harvard Persian Society (primarily undergraduates) or the Harvard Iranian Students Association (HISA) (primarily graduates) was asked to support the concert. Only when a translator was needed did the organizers bother to contact HISA. The need to defend human rights in Iran is as indisputable as the regime’s long record of torture and suppression of basic freedoms. The rights...

Author: By Alireza Doostdar and Maryam M. Gharavi, S | Title: Giving ‘Freedom’ a Bad Name | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...Emperor's five daughters, Princess Teru died in 1961 at the age of 35, and Princess Hisa died within six months of her birth in 1927. Kazuko Takatsukasa, 54, became a Shinto priestess after her husband died; Atsuko Ikeda, 52, is a businessman's wife; and Takako Shimazu, 44, is married to a banker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: An Enigmatic Still Life | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

Such a question, such a thought was no doubt remote from the blank and infant mind of Princess Sachiko Hisa-No-Miya of Japan last week. She died without having reached the age at which humans become articulate to others and probably before she became articulate to herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Hisa | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...ideographs representing the words sachiko and hisa mean "heavenly" and "long-enduring," and may be translated as Steadfast Helper, Eternal Happiness or Ever Benign. No-Miya denotes Imperial rank, such as Royal or Imperial Highness in the Occident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Baptism | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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