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Quadir said he plans to increase campus awareness of HIS—a group that has come into the limelight this semester after the surge in American anti-Arab rhetoric following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks—form strategic alliances with other Harvard groups and work to unify the group’s undergraduate and graduate students...

Author: By David S. Hirsch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Islamic Society Elects Leadership | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...will say this: Celebrity Boxing accomplished something I thought was impossible. It made me feel genuinely sorry for its limelight-grubbing pugilists. Perhaps most pathetic, in each fight one of the boxers had the name of a gambling websiite - goldenpalace.com - literally written on their skin. Because, you know, getting pummeled in front of a hooting crowd for a few more fleeting hits on the fame bong isn't truly humiliating unless you get branded like a steer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Celebrity Boxing' is a Stiff | 3/14/2002 | See Source »

Most agree that there are myriad women—past and present—who have made great contributions to the history of Harvard and yet remain conspiculously out of the limelight...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men Still Rule on Harvard Walls | 2/27/2002 | See Source »

...small hiccup: adding links for the first time isn't as intuitive as it could be. Otherwise there has never been a better way to let your voice be heard. We may not all look like RuPaul, but that's no reason to let him hog the limelight. Get blogging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pssst. Wanna See My Blog? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

Ilyas' infiltration industry was thrust into the international limelight last week as India and Pakistan seemed to be approaching the brink of war. India holds Pakistan responsible for the Dec. 13 attack on the Indian Parliament because Pakistan supports these infiltrations. Beyond that, India maintains that the ISI actually orchestrates terrorist attacks. According to a U.S. State Department official, however, American intelligence doubts that the ISI is as directly involved in terrorism--including the attack last month--as the Indian government claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Spooks And Insurrection | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

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