Word: shakir
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Family and friends gathered in Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtroom last night to commemorate Shirin Shakir, a second-year Harvard Law student who died in a white water rafting accident in Cusco, Peru over spring break...
...School Dean Elena Kagan began the memorial service by describing how Shakir had “focused on the positive, often with good humor” in life...
...Although Shakir was a successful student, those gathered focused not on her numerous achievements, but on her way of life...
...need women at the core level of decision-making,” she concluded. “It’s been a long struggle for women,” she reflected, “and they deserve to be rewarded.” Deena S. Shakir ’08, president of the Harvard Society of Arab Students, the group that organized the event, said that she liked that the discussion focused on very important, yet often overlooked, topics. “Issues related to Iraq have been widely debated,” she explained...
...Shirin Shakir, a second-year law student at Harvard Law School, died this weekend in a white water rafting accident in Cusco, Peru. Her death was reported by Law School Dean Elena Kagan in an e-mail sent to the school’s faculty and students yesterday morning. Over spring break, Shakir had taken a vacation to Peru with a group of law students from Harvard. “Most of her closest friends were with her on the trip,” Dean of Students Ellen M. Cosgrove said. “Many are going straight from Peru...