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James L. Frazier, an assistant strength coach for University of Iowa football, will become the director of Harvard’s strength and conditioning program, Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise announced yesterday. Frazier, a 2006 graduate of Brown University, will fill a month-long vacancy created by the departure of former head strength coach Craig Fitzgerald for the University of South Carolina. The former Brown defensive end and linebacker will begin overseeing all 41 Crimson varsity programs on March 2. Frazier’s hiring comes at an opportune time for the Crimson. Fitzgerald’s January departure...
With the Wildcats denied, Harvard roared back when it finally returned to even strength, tying the score on a goal by junior defenseman Kathryn Farni at 15:34 into the second frame...
While Western governments have been worrying about bearded men with bombs in caves, a new jihad has quietly gained strength in the Muslim world: Islamic feminism. Earlier this week, 350 women and men gathered in Malaysia to launch Musawah - "Equality" in Arabic - a movement for justice in the Muslim family. Organized by the Malaysian Muslim feminist group Sisters in Islam, the conference, two years in the planning, is a kick-off to a campaign to enshrine Muslim women's rights within an Islamic framework. "We are here because we believe that Islam upholds the principles of equality and justice," said...
...Islamic feminist movement has gathered strength and urgency over the past few years due to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Political Islam "has given women both the cause and the language to demand their rights and equality within an Islamic framework," notes Ziba Mir-Hosseini, an Iranian legal anthropologist at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. "The Koran gives women equality, but women's voices were silenced after the death of the Prophet. Law is always man-made, and women's voices were not there when the law was formed. They were reduced to sexual beings...
...involved in emancipating the slaves. Perhaps the most moving artifacts on display are also the simplest - plaster casts of Lincoln's craggy face and huge, rough hands, made by a sculptor during Lincoln's life. Somehow, these more than any other exhibit capture the power and the gentleness, the strength and the fatigue, that defined Lincoln as president. (See video of Lincoln in film...