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Interpreters of the Koran should emphasize unity instead of conflicting views, Islamic scholar Mufti Syed M. Hasan said in an Islam Awareness Week lecture last night at Pound Hall...
Microsoft reinvented itself to win the Internet war against Netscape and others. This war is far from over, but with the focus, vision and competitive instinct of Bill Gates to lead the way, Microsoft's primacy in the software arena should continue for a long time to come. HASAN ZILLUR RAHIM San Jose, California...
There is a grim economy to the way a terrorist works, born of a dark arithmetic: fear rises exponentially. One whisper can undo a city. The very group that gave us the word assassin--a secret band of loyalists gathered around Hasan i Sabbah, the "Old Man of the Mountain," in Persia 900 years ago--mastered the basic law of terror: that even the smallest threat can ripple out to touch those a thousand miles away. Iago gave us the evidence: plant uncertainty in a shaky mind, and suspicion spreads like blood across a handkerchief...
...Tehran government, in its current attempt at moderation, went through public hoops to disavow the sentiments and to regret the loss of life. All of which makes a recent round of Iranian diplomacy more than a little embarrassing. Just before the murderous last spate of bombings in Israel, Hasan Habibi, Vice President of Iran, visited Syria for what amounted to a pep rally for Middle East terrorism. Gathered at Iran's embassy in Damascus were the leaders of such Palestinian extremist groups as Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and Hamas...
...merger also promised a more personal benefit. Under the old medicine, says Dr. Hasan, "the idea was, you don't go into the health-care business to get rich. But that system was very inefficient." Now the reverse is true, he argues. When he took his company public, his holdings became worth $150 million. "We all got very rich," he says, his delight bubbling out in a chuckle. The prospect of such wealth, Dr. Hasan argues, helped managed-care companies draw the best executives, who in turn applied corporate stratagems to compel doctors to become more efficient...