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Ahmed takes a moment to call on audience members. The comedian has been the subject of a Newsweek feature and has appeared in many other 
publications and television shows, including the Wall Street Journal, “JAG” and MTV’s “Punk’d.” #gallery http://daily.stanford.org/image/full/6533
Shams Shaikh

Ahmed takes a moment to call on audience members. The comedian has been the subject of a Newsweek feature and has appeared in many other publications and television shows, including the Wall Street Journal, “JAG” and MTV’s “Punk’d.”

Ahmed Ahmed gets laughs

Egyptian-born comic’s jokes well-received by Stanford audiences
By Sini Matikainen
NEWS| Cracking jokes on the difficulties of flying on airplanes, the relationship between Muslims and Jews and even Sept. 11, comic Ahmed Ahmed drew big laughs—and awkward silences—from a packed crowd at Annenberg Auditorium yesterday.

Former All-Star calls for school aid

By Camila Tapernoux
NEWS| Think guarding Michael Jordan was hard? Try eradicating inequalities in public education, former Phoenix Suns guard Kevin Johnson told a crowd at Schwab Residential Complex last night.

Researchers discover possible stress cure

By Ada Yee
NEWS| Around midterm season, students know all too well how stress can impede their abilities to learn and remember.

PWR awards honor innovative research

By Julie Klein
NEWS| Research papers are a rite of passage for freshman, yet few students think about their work after turning in paper work in a Red Bull-induced haze. The Stanford Writing Center looked to reverse that trend Wednesday when it handed out the first batch of Innovative Research Awards (IRAs) for exceptional PWR papers.