Word: students
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...Cummings is a graduate student in philosophy at Boston University...
...fifth-year doctoral student in the History of Religious (Comparative Religion) at the Harvard Divinity School. My area of specialization is Islamic studies. For three and a half years I have lived in the Center for the Study of World Religions. One year, 1977-78, my wife and I lived in Cairo, where I pursued my work in Arabic and Islamic studies...
Neither as a student of politics nor a follower of any particular ideology am I qualified to discuss Reverend Kimball's remarks on Iran's present situation (see The Crimson, Jan. 9). But as an Iranian Moslem student currently at the same institution and a member of the Center for the Study of World Religion as is Rev. Kimball, I would like to raise a few questions about his article...
...aware that 99 per cent of the 60,000 Iranian students in the U.S. are the children of plumbers, mechanics, taxi drivers, masons, gardeners? They are not here on scholarship but on their fathers' income. If it is true that the Shah had squeezed the wealth out of the Iranian people for the last 37 years, how could these lower class people be so prosperous as to afford to send their children to study abroad, even visiting them every now and then and returning home with products from U.S. department stores? Does Rev. Kimball know that every Iranian student...
Seeing Laingen as an important liaison for possible future negotiations with Washington and anxious to shore up his own authority, Ghotbzadeh shrewdly referred the matter to Khomeini. Despite the entreaties of a student delegation that visited Qum, Khomeini maintained his silence-thereby tacitly backing his Foreign Minister and the Revolutionary Council, which had originally decided to "harbor" Laingen and two U.S. aides. Said a Ghotbzadeh aide with satisfaction: "I guess we have given the students an idea where the line should be drawn...