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It's hard to imagine that anyone could object to a campaign to eliminate polio - a disease that maims, paralyzes, and even kills its victims, who are mostly children. Yet, in one of the more bizarre confrontations between Islamic fundamentalists and the modern world, a tiny group of clerics in...
Some countries are taking the renewed threat of polio very seriously. Last year, Saudi Arabia announced that all travelers from countries with polio, under the age of 15, would have to show valid proofs of vaccination before they got a visa to enter the country. India's health minister, Anbumani...
“Not a single army in the world will be able to dismantle our resistance. No army in the world will be able to make us drop the weapons from our hands:” So bragged Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week as he addressed a cheering...
During the Muslim holy month Ramadan, observant students gather together for nightly dinners after fasting since dawn. Since last Saturday, the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) has been catering iftar, a breaking-of-the-fast, each night after sundown in Ticknor Lounge. “At my house, Ramadan is a...
President Bush avoided a face-to-face confrontation with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations last week, but elsewhere on Manhattan, Kennedy School of Government professor Ashton B. Carter confronted the controversial Tehran chief head-on. The encounter left some observers hopeful that the U.S. could strike up...