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Article: For Aga Khan, architecture is a tool of change
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 27, 1994
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The Aga Khan may be a world legend, but when he breezes in to a
Wednesday appointment, ruddy, smiling and apologizing for being
late, he's still essentially Karim Khan, the gregarious A-student
Harvard kid who once sculled on the Charles, in the brief years
before he found himself, at age 20, thrust unexpectedly into the
leadership of the world's 20 million Ismaili Muslims -- a population
the size of Canada's, spread across almost the whole world.
It's hard to know how to refer to him. "His Highness" seems a
bit stiff, "Mr. Khan" a bit flip. His staffers speak of HH ("His
Highness"), and maybe that's as good as anything.
HH is in town to give the commencement address today at MIT, in
which ...