Word: bucharest
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Harvardicus irritatus is usually defined as "an epidemic that transforms predominantly nice, bright college kids into snivelling, whining wretches who deserve to be airdropped into downtown Bucharest with `I loved Nikolai Ceausescu' tattoos carved into their foreheads." Every January, this dreaded disorder pervades the student body, causing widespread stress, anxiety and generally infantile behavior...
...Bucharest must still find a way to adjust to the social and economic dislocations brought about by Ceausescu's baby boom. Among the first will be an "echo boom" of children born in the next few years to mothers who were born in the late 1960s. For Rumanians, the aftershocks of State Decree No. 770 will be felt a long time after...
...Modrow's grip on power is slipping, the authority of Rumania's new government seems to be splintering completely. Two weeks ago, 1,000 demonstrators converged on the headquarters of the ruling National Salvation Front in Bucharest, screaming, "Death for Communists!" The Front, whose eleven-member ruling board is made up entirely of former party members, immediately outlawed the Communist Party...
Rather, let's give credit where credit is due: to the people of Eastern Europe, the marchers in Prague's Wenceslas Square, the courageous protesters in Leipzig, the thousands slaughtered in Bucharest. They, along with their martyred kindred in Beijing, are the People of the Decade...
...Rumania is on the way, and from a source not known for its largesse -- Moscow. Last week the Kremlin promised to supply Rumania with some of the oil and gas needed to fuel economic recovery. The gesture of goodwill was combined with a hastily arranged visit to Bucharest on Saturday by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Moscow's solicitousness may be attributed to a desire to quell the discontent of ethnic Rumanians in the Soviet republic of Moldavia, a region Stalin annexed from Rumania in 1940. Now that Ceausescu is gone, the Kremlin has every reason to expect that secessionist...