Word: easternism
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...ensemble tries its hand at French, Eastern European, and even Japanese melodies, applying flawless instrumental technique to each one without the air of novelty that many jack-of-all-trade groups adopt. But Forbes’s voice puts even this virtuosity to shame...
...Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Loai T. Naamani, president of the Lebanese Club and an MIT Ph.D candidate in Information Technologies at MIT, also spoke at the event...
...Roger Owen, the director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, said that one Harvard student injured in Lebanon last week is thought to have since left the country...
Michael J. Esdaile, a Canadian second-year Ph.D. student in Middle Eastern History, was mildly wounded when he cab was hit by fire in Beirut, Owen said...
...over fuming beakers—that are strange and abnormal. The dehumanization of scientists is not simply a Western phenomenon. But in contrast to the West, where the scientist is politely told to take a seat in the backroom where no one will notice his odd mannerisms and strangeness, Eastern societies have dehumanized the scientist in a completely opposite way: They have deified him. In many Asian countries, scientists are national heroes. Take Chen Jin, a top physicist, who was feted by top Chinese leaders for developing the Hanxin computer chip. Or Hwang Woo-Suk, the South Korean biologist whose...