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...gives the Muslim clergy, in particular its most revered scholar, absolute, God-given authority to govern Iran. Considering that legacy, political reformers avoid challenging it directly. But dissident clerics began questioning the dogma after Khomeini's death, an action that put some 500 mullahs in prison or under house arrest, including the most senior critic, Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazari, once Khomeini's designated successor. Conservatives are worried that democracy will disembowel velayat-e faqih--and the clerical establishment along with it. "If this debate is not resolved," warns Eshkevari, "the Islamic Republic will run into a dead...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) capture the suspected "Yard burglar," in a dramatic daytime arrest. HUPD officers arrest Andre Stuckey, 20, who say is responsible for a dozen break-ins, predominately in Matthews Hall. Stuckey later pled guilty to crimes stemming from the incidents...
...arrest a man long sought as a suspect in the murder. The Sept. 9, 1976 murder was the result of a botched drug deal...
...During pre-frosh weekend, about 30 members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement occupy Byerly Hall for six hours to promote their campaign for a living wage at Harvard. Facing down potential arrest, members refuse to heed requests from the Harvard University Police Department that they leave the building...
...Former Kirkland House resident Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, is charged with rape and indecent assault and battery by an undergraduate woman. The arrest is initially omitted by the Harvard Police Department from its blotter, a violation of Bay State law. Elster later pleads guilty to all six felony counts and is dismissed by the Faculty in an April 1999 vote...