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...wedding parties, would be welcome, as would better intelligence. Also, the narcotics trade that props up the corruption endemic in the country's ruling bureaucracy, law enforcement agencies and judiciary must be targeted. Effective governance and education will beat the Taliban better than any American-inspired surge. Fazal Karim, Rawalpindi, Pakistan...
Also receiving degrees will be spiritual leader Karim Aga Khan ’58; Yale developmental psychologist James P. Comer; Princeton art historian Wen C. Fong; Columbia neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel ’52; federal judge Damon J. Keith, women’s historian Gerda Lerner, Stanford computer scientist John McCarthy, University of Chicago biologist Janet D. Rowley, author J. K. Rowling, and former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson...
...summer before his senior year, Prince Karim Khan ’58 received unexpected news. His grandfather, His Highness Aga Khan III, had died, and his will named Karim—fondly known by his classmates as ‘K’—as his successor, making him Aga Khan IV. And so, at 20 years old, Karim became the leader of the Ismaili Muslims, a sect of Shia Islam with over 15 million followers who consider him a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad...
...Once Karim became the Aga Khan, the Islamic history concentrator no longer led a student’s life...
...While most Shias believe this imam disappeared in the ninth century and await his return, Ismailis believe in a “living imam,” the Aga Khan, who is vested with ultimate worldly and spiritual authority. Ismailis consider Karim the 49th imam and the fourth Aga Khan—a courtesy title meaning “great king” that was bestowed on the family by the King of Persia in the 1830s...