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...long it can capitalize on the p.r. boost it gained from waging war with Israel. Among Lebanon's downtrodden Shi'ites, Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah now enjoys mythical status. The many faces of Nasrallah appear everywhere. At times he is portrayed as a jolly preacher, a wise scholar or a glowering warrior with his turban like a black storm cloud overhead. When a starstruck woman requested the abaya, or robe, that he wore during the war, Nasrallah obliged, and since then TV crews have been following the woman across Lebanon as she displays this now holy garment for other...
...Mohammed Ali Jinnah was an extraordinary leader of high stature and merit, and one of the most brilliant statesmen of his time. American scholar Stanley Wolpert, a South Asia expert, has remarked that Jinnah was for Pakistan what Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru combined were for India. But while you chose to put Gandhi and Nehru on the cover of one of your editions, you did not afford Jinnah the same courtesy. That's unfair. Aziz-ul-Haq Qureshi Chief Coordinator Nazaria-i-Pakistan Foundation Lahore, Pakistan...
...leading scholar in African religions has been tapped to chair the University’s Committee on African Studies...
...Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood” was published. And just last year, the American Musicological Society—of which he was president from 1987-88—established the Lewis Lockwood Award for promising young music scholars. Lockwood is as fit as any to lend his name to such an award, having made an early entrance into the music scene himself. Born in New York to a musical family, Lockwood played cello by the age of nine. The future scholar quickly became proficient, and by his teenage years Lockwood...
Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07 is the latest Harvard senior to receive a prestigious award to study in the United Kingdom. As one of 43 students nationwide to win a Marshall Scholarship, she will join six Harvard Rhodes Scholars in the UK next fall. A literature concentrator in Lowell House, Vasiliauskas will study Criticism and Culture in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University. Lyric poetry has been a focus of her time at Harvard, and she used her personal statement in her application to elaborate on the “value of poetry...