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...popular wave in global affairs. In the late 20th century, Muslims were not alone in organizing to restore religious belief to government. Christians in America, Jews in Israel, even Hindus in India were promoting the same end. As a revolutionary, Khomeini sought to bring down not just the Shah's Western-oriented state but also the secular Weltanschauung that stood behind it. Did Khomeini's triumph augur an intellectual shift of global magnitude...
...young seminary teacher, Khomeini was no activist. From the 1920s to the 1940s, he watched passively as Reza Shah, a monarch who took Ataturk as his model, promoted secularization and narrowed clerical powers. Similarly, Khomeini was detached from the great crisis of the 1950s in which Reza Shah's son Mohammed Reza Pahlavi turned to America to save himself from demonstrators on Tehran's streets who were clamoring for democratic reform...
Monica B. Shah '99, the secretary of Dharma, said she believed more people would have come outside to the quad if it had not been for the cold weather...
...first-year, Shah says she found herself in a difficult situation when she was confronted with the dilemma of being pre-med and concentrating in English with honors at the same time...
...Shah says she has found her niche with history and science, because it has broadened and enhanced her pre-med focus, compelling her to look at the more social aspects of medicine. Now, Shah says she constantly asks herself, "How is what I'm studying affecting the world...