Word: imamate
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...hold the menial jobs in Lebanon and who have long received second-class treatment in domestic matters from Lebanon's Christians and the religiously dominant Sunni sect, to which Karami and most Moslems in his Cabinet belong. Now the peasants were angry at becoming pawns in war. Imam Mousa Sadr, religious leader of the Shia, called an effective one-day strike last week that even curtailed operations at Beirut airport and forced foreign jets to divert to Istanbul. The government quickly voted $8,500,000 in relief funds for the refugees, but Mousa Sadr threatened more strikes unless...
Salahuddin Imam edits a weekly feature on Radicalism in the CRIMSON
...records and glad records and bad records and sad records and one day it will all end. But it hasn't yet, I don't think. Where is the foolhardy soul who dares to admit that he thought in 1965 that the Beatles were all washed-up? --SALAHUDDIN I. IMAM...
...approved by legally constituted medical authorities, either because their value has not been proved or because they have been shown to be worthless. This covers the activities of M.D.s as well as those of unlicensed practitioners. * Among them: Pope Pius XII, King Ibn Saud of Arabia, the Imam of Yemen, Georges Braque, Somerset Maugham, Gloria Swanson. Though Niehans did not personally treat Sir Winston Churchill or Konrad Adenauer, they used his cellular injections...
Obviously this parallel is a bit specious since reading and lectures have different functions. But I do think lectures can legitimately be introductory, and that Mr. Imam's proposal lifts them to an independent eminence they rarely have. The final act in most courses finds the student putting the primary materials together in his own way, and it may be enough for lectures to suggest how this might be done. Lawrence J. Richardson...