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...AlJabri, president of Muslim American Society (MAS). Organized by MAS, Friday’s event featured recitations from the Qur’an by recognized Muslim reciter Sheikh Mohamed Jebril, who traveled from Egypt to lead the prayers. While he spoke, children weaved between prayer rug stands and bake sale tables. Attendees mingled in the courtyard while snacking on baghrir—a North African pancake stuffed with almonds, coconuts, and honey—breaking their fast from the daylight hours. “It’s not just a mosque—it’s a symbol...
...felt Boston’s collective heart start beating again.For all the romance about the Red Sox and the hoopla surrounding Bill Belichick’s stealth with a video camera, Boston has bled Celtic green since Red Auerbach paced the sidelines decades ago.So when Celtics tickets went on sale last Friday, this old city’s heart—broken and embittered after 20 years of pure misery—started pumping the same green blood that fueled a 30-year obsession with arguably the NBA’s best franchise.And I, the hapless Midwesterner unfamiliar with this...
...decades, people are still afraid to talk about it.” Seven campus organizations, including the South Asian Men’s Collective, helped organize the Step It Up campaign, which includes a talk by Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul Farmer, a charity dance, and the sale of the much-discussed shirts. “I like them because they don’t say ‘We’re raising awareness for HIV victims,’ but I can understand what they mean,” said George A. Kitovitz...
Olmert is not unused to being the subject of legal probes. A criminal investigation was launched earlier this year into his role in the sale of Bank Leumi when he was still finance minister. His lawyers have tied up that case with questions and motions and it has yet to proceed to an indictment. Olmert's office says that the privatization of Leumi, a state-run bank, was done according to law. As for the apartment scandal, Olmert's aides deny that any laws were broken...
...solution. Finally, it is unfair to all seniors that the hall subscriptions were sold uneventfully in the middle of class time during shopping period. Both the lack of publicity and poor timing doubtlessly disenfranchised many seniors from the option of purchasing a subscription. A better way to handle the sale, given the limited number of mugs, would have been an online lottery in which all interested seniors could enter in order to receive the option of purchasing...