Word: khans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Geneva-based philanthropic Aga Khan Foundation, is funding the project, committee member David E. Bell, Gamble Professor of Population Sciences and International Health, said yesterday Dwight H. Perkins, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) is coordinating the staff work, Bell added...
Committee members said, however, that the group is still informal. The location of the planned university is yet to be determined; it could be anywhere in the Third World and may be formed independently or in conjunction with the Aga Khan Medical College...
Harvey Brooks, Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, and Oleg Grabar. Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, are the two other faculty members on the committee...
Perkins--who will administer the funds through the HIID--declined to disclose the possible recommendations the committee will eventually make, explaining. "It's his [the Aga Khan's] judgment as to whether the alternatives are to be made public...
...Khan has no illusions about what can really be achieved. In the Golden Crescent, smuggling and smugglers' routes are almost as old as the Khyber Pass. Says Khan of the prospects for his antidrug crusade: "When the hills disappear, only then can you expect the traffic...