Word: easternism
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...raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fight breast cancer. Amidst all this, the Black and White dominated MIT, beating every boat the Engineers sent up the river and missed the pace set by UCF’s varsity eight by just one second.Primed for Eastern Sprints, Radcliffe returned to the Cooper River in Camden and managed to put together a team second-place finish in points behind Wisconsin, which upset heavily favored Princeton for the Sprints title.Radcliffe placed fourth overall behind Georgetown, Princeton—boats that had beaten the Black and White earlier in the season?...
...story represents a peculiar confluence of Eastern religion and Western science, as Taylor’s spiritual state was achieved not as a result of meditation or prayer, but through the literal destruction of a portion of her brain. Her journey is, in many ways, the ultimate display of materialism—even the ineffable condition of religious ecstasy can be created by neuro-chemical manipulation. The link between the physical and metaphysical serves as a powerful reminder that even the things about ourselves that we consider the most fundamental—our beliefs, our selves, and our basic conceptions...
Clinton polls well statewide among older white women, and among a majority of Democrats in the conservative eastern half of the state, while Obama rated highest in the traditionally liberal, organized-labor towns of the western half. But a poll taken the third week of May showed Obama handily winning Montana Democrats. While only three of the state superdelegates have publicly pledged for Obama, the rest are likely to go the way of the primary results...
...least partially influenced by Sheehan’s sophomore and junior year roommate in Claverly Hall, Reza Majd, who hailed from the Middle East. A combination of Majd’s influence and the strength of Harvard’s program led Sheehan to switch his concentration to Middle Eastern History after sophomore year...
...effete, had not liked the way Bush had handled himself at a few key moments in the primary. Plus, they were from two different wings of the GOP: Reagan hailed from its more conservative, western, anti-government wing; Bush was a legatee of the moderate eastern establishment and had famously called Reagan's tax cutting economic policies a kind of "voodoo...