Word: rahmani
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...said the roll-call vote did not affect his decision to support the bill, which he said he strongly supports. At the same meeting, the UC allocated $24,151.45 to 86 different projects in its spring grants packet legislation. That package received one amendment, proposed by Cyrus M. Mossavar-Rahmani ’09. He attempted to strike funding for On Harvard Time’s mural, but the motion ultimately failed. “I think On Harvard Time is a kind of clique that funds itself pretty generously so it’s not clear...
...Still, Khodaydad is aware that his honesty has unintended consequences. For one thing, there's the $30,000 price on his head. He doesn't know exactly who set the hit, but he has been warned repeatedly. One suspect, he says, is Farah's provincial police chief Khalilullah Rahmani. "Because I am not paying Khalil [Rahmani], he is forced to take the money I would give him in other ways," says Khodaydad. One of those ways, say both Khodaydad and his U.S. mentors, is by withholding vital supplies such as fuel and ammunition to sell on the black market. Rahmani...
...actively support them by donating weapons meant for cops on the beat. Khodaydad estimates that he gets into at least two engagements with militants a week, while surrounding districts are tranquil. "The government in Farah is working hand in hand with the Taliban," he says. "Khalil [Rahmani] asks me, 'Why do you fight? You are the only one. Why don't you relax like me, take taxes and enjoy life?'" Rahmani claims to have good relations with all the district police chiefs, and denies that he has said anything like this. Officials at the Ministry of Interior and U.S. police...
...would have gotten a taste of some of those issues - on the first night of his visit a misunderstanding between Coalition forces, the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police led to an air strike in western Afghanistan that killed eight police and injured six, according to Khalilulah Rahmani, Police chief of Farah Province. "It was an unfortunate incident of friendly fire," says Hamidzada, who explained at a press conference that Afghan soldiers traveling with U.S. forces had mistaken the police for Taliban militants and asked for air support...
John G. Ruggie, director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of his research on transnational human rights standards. Ruggie is one of 190 fellows selected this year to receive a portion of the $8.2 million in fellowship grants, an average of $40,000 for each fellow. Ruggie will be using his funding to take a sabbatical from teaching beginning on July 1 to conduct research and interviews for his upcoming book. “I plan to write a book...