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...university. Music has been taught since 1973, and courses in the discipline remain in instruction. There are also over a dozen extracurricular clubs and societies. We will continue to produce well-groomed students to meet the national and international needs of the 21st century. Dr. Muhammad Naeem Khan Registrar University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan...
...changed it,” said Natalia Martinez ’08, who is one of the Harvard Cancer Society’s bone marrow project directors. This year was also the first time that potential donors were screened with cheek swabs rather than blood tests, according to Moazzam Khan, the community outreach director for SAMAR. Due to this innovation, the process is faster, less daunting, and cheaper, he said. “It used to be $70, now it is only $52,” he added. “Now everyone can do the drive, once we explain...
...FREED. Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, Pakistani-born British Muslim sentenced to be hanged for the 1988 killing of taxi driver Jamshed Khan; after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf commuted his sentence; in Rawalpindi. Hussain, who said Khan had died after a gun went off during a struggle as the driver tried to sexually assault him, became a cause célèbre among Britain's Pakistani community and earned an appeal for clemency from Prince Charles during a visit to Pakistan last month. "At last," said Hussain's brother Amjad upon his release, "these 18 years of nightmare appear...
Some urban dwellers are taking matters into their own hands. In parts of Delhi, companies are now employing imposing langur monkeys to protect buildings and scare off the smaller rhesus monkeys. "Any langur will do the business," says Zahid Khan, 20, a langur handler who regularly chains one or two outside the Press Trust of India building, which houses TIME's Delhi bureau. "The monkeys are petrified of them...
...introduction of a 40-lb. beast outside your window doesn't exactly bring a sense of tranquillity. With their sharp teeth and long, muscular tail that can swat an errant primate from a couple of feet away, langurs are scary not just to smaller monkeys but also to humans. Khan says business is good, despite the recent proliferation of competitors. The company he works for employs 12 langurs, including the two he was using to guard our building a few weeks ago: Babby, an 8-year-old female with a young baby playing at her feet; and Ramu, a fierce...