Word: ares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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We wondered--and we're still wondering--what sort of experience it must be for East Berliners to come to the capitalist West for the first time. What are they feeling over there? The most interesting strain of the media's commentary on their experiences has been the wonder East...
It's easy to attribute archetypal significance to events that are as far away as Germany. It's easy to speak of the Brandenburg Gate as theentrance into "bourgeois society." The world is not so centered as that, though. Admittedly, "bourgeois" is one of the world's vaguer words, but...
Chinese classes are incredible; we take two hours of grammar, two hours of writing and two hours of conversation every day. But here, all that work doesn't feel academic at all, because we use it every day. It's like taking an ongoing course on survival while you are...
I can hop on the train whenever I want and go all over the country--although things are really far apart. I'm writing you from the middle of this dirt-pit known as Dakong. It is the home of some amazing 1560-year-old Buddhist caves which hold huge...
With Hindus accounting for 83% of India's 833 million people, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi permitted the militants to lay the foundation stone for the new temple last week. The Hindu extremists are the vanguard of a growing movement led by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Its aim: to establish a...