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And while Michael D. Lewis '93, who is Black, asserts that inevitably "being a minority is part of [minority students'] Harvard experience," not every Black, gay, Asian, female or Islamic student becomes active in "minority" issues. Tae-Hui Kim '93, who expresses her ethnic identity through the arts group Kutguhri...
Many women are dispensing with the cumbersome chador and are wearing simple head scarves. At the Red Shopping Mall in northern Tehran, teenage girls sport cut-down Islamic dresses called mini-manteaus, with flashes of color from bandanas under their scarves. Says an Iranian student: "Women are trying to make...
The taste for broader contacts extends beyond Tehran. In Qum, a major religious center, clerics at the Ayatullah Golpaigani Research Center use Mitac desktop computers, on which they can call up 700 volumes of Islamic holy law encoded on Foxpro software. The center's director, Ayatullah Ali Korani, wants to...
Rafsanjani's power base in the Majlis is made up of a small clique of technocrats and the bazaari merchant class, of which he is a member. The bazaaris were the key to the overthrow of the Shah, and now they want the President to live up to his promises...
U.S. intelligence sources say the three main factions involved in the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina have hired nearly 20,000 foreign mercenaries since 1991 -- including some Americans. The marauding Bosnian Serbs have hired technical experts from Romania and Greece as well as fighting Russian cossacks; the Croat forces...