Word: rashid
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While his classmates were busy buying books and moving furniture to prepare for the fall semester, Abdelnasser Rashid ’11 was anxiously awaiting a call from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign. A week into school, after he had decided on most of his courses, it came—the campaign was offering him a position as a field organizer...
Soon after, Rashid told his roommates that he had some news that needed to be discussed. He had not mentioned the potential job to them...
...Rashid, who also volunteered with Harvard Students for Obama last year, quickly decided to leave for the fall semester and travel to Dearborn, Mich. to help the Obama campaign...
...part of his job as a field organizer, Rashid is responsible for coordinating phonebanks and canvasses. Rashid described his role as organizing Obama supporters and making sure that they are registered and ready to vote...
...Taliban has regained legitimacy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, journalist Ahmed Rashid said yesterday in a lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rashid, a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Britain’s Daily Telegraph who wrote a best-selling book on the Taliban, said that the group has become a regional security problem—not just an Afghani one—and that it is causing instability in much of central Asia. “The Taliban has become a kind of brand now, not just of extremism but a model of society...