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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately, a few weeks after Ramadan, a Friday night discussion group changed my ambivalent attitude towards HIS. I sat beside about 30 other students, the largest gathering of Muslims I had yet come across at Harvard. I listened to them all make suggestions about strengthening the HIS community. And I realized that, in our enthusiasm to strengthen our personal faith, we had forgotten about the communal foundations on which that faith must be grounded...

Author: By Lama N. Jarudi, | Title: The Centrality of Community | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

...singing, you might think the Lowell House production of Verdi's Rigoletto a remarkably fine one. As it is, watching what happens on stage doesn't add much to what you hear. There simply isn't that much to see, and what one does see tends to lessen, not strengthen, any dramatic impact...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Lowell House Opera Presents Verdi With a Spot of 'Grease' | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

Emphasizing the need to strengthen ties between political parties and community groups, the speakers agreed that integrated education is a necessary step towards peace...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Politicians Discuss Conflict in Northern Ireland | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...drugs--protease inhibitors--are designed to be taken according to a strict schedule and can potentially strengthen the HIV-virus if taken sporadically...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Services Support AIDS Sufferers | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...then seemed to turn his attentions to nationalist hawks assembled before him. He reiterated Russia's opposition to the eastward expansion of NATO, which he said was an attempt to "take Russia out of Europe, isolate Russia, for which European nations will pay very dearly." The counter-offensive: to strengthen ties with CIS neighbors such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Belarus. A man infamous for his extravagant p romises, Yeltsin wisely made few in a sober and sobering 24-minute address. One, to pay all pensions owed by June 3, actually drew some smiles from Duma members. Other skepticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Order of the Day | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

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