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...also silent on the issue of prosecuting war crimes committed during the 1971 struggle. The symbolic low point came this fall, when several Islamist groups pulled down a memorial to the student movement near the airport - they called it "un-Islamic"- and threatened to tear down the Shahid Minar, a series of connected marble pillars that is Bangladesh's equivalent of the Statue of Liberty and the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. Jamaat contested in 39 parliamentary seats but won only 2, down from 17 in the last polls. "It is amazing," says Sreeradha Datta, a research fellow at the Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Secular Victory in Bangladesh Election | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

...book combines a history of Delhi, a description of its architectural phases, succinct sketches of virtually every interesting monument in the city, dozens of black-and-white photos and plenty of practical getting-around advice. The loving descriptions will help the reader explore world-famous monuments like the Qutb Minar, a magnificent 800-year-old tower, the Lodi tombs and mosques, and lesser-known marvels such as the Jamali Kamali, the tomb of a 16th century poet and his companion. Spanning from the Middle Ages through the British Raj to the present, the book shows how Delhi accumulated history like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Delights of Delhi | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

Edward H. Minar, Robbins Library of Philosophy librarian, said Robbins could not contribute to the new catalog because "we don't have the resources to change that completely...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: University Library Displaying Microfiche Cataloging System | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

...before I publicly embarrass all you guys n' gals in print, it's time first to declare the co-winners of the Sports Cube Disk Frisk Treasure Chest of Prizes. They are Ed "Don't Bug Me, I've Got My Radio On" Minar of Quincy House and Wendy Anne "Put Number G-18 on, Mac" King of Cambridge. Both over-grown teenagers scored an astonishing 94 correct answers out of 105. As a result, Aronson and I are currently trying to get this Top 40 match made in heaven together...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Disk Frisk' Entries More Bizarre Than Questions | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

Over the past four weeks the six students--Howard Levin '76, Joel Carpenter '78, Edward Minar '77, Roye Randall '79, Lodovico Simone '76 and Jeffrey Spier '77--have moved into rooms in Canaday Hall and Currier, North, Quincy, and Winthrop Houses...

Author: By M. M. Jacobs, | Title: Harvard Grants Campus Space To All Six Evicted Students | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

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