Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40, both Crimson editors, Harvard had developed a reputation for breeding the future leaders of Eastern establishment. Its students were channeled into leadership positions in government, business and media...
...graduated with a magna cum laude degree inNear Eastern Studies in 1973, after only threeyears of study and without accepting advancedstanding...
Boston public television station WGBH asked MacNeil to host "MacNeil Reports on Congress," which would be shown on the Eastern Television Network, a forerunner...
...ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid American intuition (fear, if you like). In an atmosphere compounded of the Soviet enslavement of Eastern Europe, the Hiss conviction, the detonation of the first Soviet nuclear bomb, the communist takeover of China and the invasion of South Korea, something was wrong in the world. The opening of Soviet archives after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., together with the Venona decryptions, which the National Security Agency...
...place is a more likely target for Chinese missiles than Taiwan, which Beijing insists is still its own. Recent discussions between Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. about an antimissile defense network in eastern Asia have infuriated Beijing. Even though such a shield is decades away, a "missile-proof" Taiwan would surely continue--and flaunt--its independence, possibly triggering Asia's next...