Word: easternism
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...irony in that rise is that Austria has rarely had it so good. Growth and investment have easily outpaced the E.U. average for years; banks are profiting from new markets in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The capital Vienna, flush with tax revenues, looks almost imperial again. Much of the country's prosperity is a direct consequence of one of the far right's most cherished bugbears: the E.U.'s expansion towards the east...
...vigorous press drawing on the talents of close observers of enormous skill and perception. I have worked in nations where the press was not free—where it served as a mouthpiece of the state or special interests under Soviet communism, for instance, or a host of Middle Eastern and Asian dictatorships. Their nations, their people were far the worse for this lack of an unfettered press...
...millions of records. He’s about as far from a rebel without a cause as you can get. Chinese music critics hail his masterful work (he allegedly doesn’t really write the lyrics) as revolutionary for his (perceived) unique ability to masterfully (they say) blend Eastern and Western musical styles. Party officials in the People’s Republic have a crush on him, too, consistently showering him with praise and commendations for his positive (party-line) music and his exemplary personal life—a life in which, he told China’s Shenyang...
...difference.” In an interview after his speech, Vilsack said he believes young people will be important in this election. He added that the opportunity to spend the fall at Harvard allows him to appear more frequently on national media outlets and to campaign throughout eastern and mid-Atlantic states on the weekends. “I can’t overemphasize the importance of states like Maine and New Hampshire, the New England states that are important in this election,” he said. In fact, the Harvard College Democrats are planning to canvas key states...
...least 30 supporters of President Morales, and possibly a lot more, have been killed over the past week as an opposition campaign to obtain autonomy for the resource-rich eastern regions they control turned violent. The opposition Prefects are demanding greater control over policies ranging from land reform to the allocation of the earnings of Bolivia's natural gas exports, which originate in their regions. Earlier this year, the departments of Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni voted overwhelmingly in favor of opposition-drafted autonomy statutes, but since those referenda were not sanctioned by the national electoral court, the central...