Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing was wrong with it, of course, and it is back for sure in The Russia House. Scarcely a dozen pages into this novel, Le Carre's twelfth, a document of potentially enormous importance has been passed from East to West during an exhibit of audiocassette wares in Moscow. Three grubby notebooks full of highly technical drawings and mathematical notations also contain some eye- popping assertions: "The American strategists can sleep in peace. Their nightmares cannot be realised. The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour." If true, such statements and the accompanying evidence pointing out the military incompetence...
...common ground was first bridged on April 26, when 150,000 people flooded the square to show disapproval of an inflammatory People's Daily editorial that denounced the students. "That was a major breakthrough in Chinese modern history," says Roderick MacFarquahar, director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. It marked the "first time since 1949 that a demonstration by society against the state was made successfully in the face of a powerful government...
There have been several published responses to the editorial, both in The Crimson, and recently in the Asian-American Association's magazine East Wind. I would like to address the major arguments raised in many of these responses...
Freshman Republican Brian Lees of East Longmeadow chose to make his maiden speech in support of abortion rights...
...people like Kwonjune Seung '91, the author of the East Wind article, whom I have in mind when I think about minority self-segregation. In his piece, Seung betrays his innermost thoughts: "Perhaps Hsia has never gone out on a dinner date with a white lady friend and felt the temperature drop several degrees. Then he cannot understand how liberating it can be to able to date members of the same minority group...