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Harvard professor Amartya Sen may have won a Nobel Prize for his work in welfare economics, but his son addresses the issue of social injustice in a different manner—he raps about it. Kabir Sen, a Wesleyan University graduate and son of Lamont University Professor Sen, will release his third album, “Peaceful Solutions,” on April 25. According to the rapper’s manager, Howard Turkenkopf, Kabir’s first two albums were well received. “His stuff has a lot more in terms of intelligence and a sort...
Military officials say they believe Iranian-funded militias helped organize a mob attack in the southern township of Majarr al-Kabir on June 24, 2003, that resulted in the execution of six British military-police officers. According to a classified British military-intelligence document, a local militia leader is "implicated in the murder of the 6 RMP [Royal Military Police]." The man heads a cell of the Mujahedin for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (MIRI), a paramilitary outfit coordinated out of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's base in Ahvaz, Iran. Although U.S. and British officers think it unlikely the soldiers were...
...reality. They are professional experts and want to deliver on people's needs," says Dr. Amir Mohebbian, political editor of the conservative daily "Resalat." Others aren't as optimistic. "The Abadgaran are just the old wolves in new sheep's clothes," says a student leader at Tehran's Amir Kabir University. "They are the new hardline tactic to regain control over the political structures of the country...
...Prince Ahmed was felled by a heart attack at age 43. One day later Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud, 41, was killed in what was called a high-speed car accident. The last member of the trio, Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, officially "died of thirst" while traveling east of Riyadh one week later. And seven months after that, Mushaf Ali Mir, by then Pakistan's Air Marshal, perished in a plane crash in clear weather over the unruly North-West Frontier province, along with his wife and closest confidants...
...soldiers were abducted last week. "Not only kidnap," adds his friend Wadah al-Hamdani. "We're going to kill them like sheep." Then he made one of those motions understood in all countries and all cultures--of a knife being drawn across a throat. --Reported by Joshua Kucera/Majar al-Kabir, Scott Macleod/Baghdad, Simon Robinson/Halabsa and Mark Thompson/Washington