Word: easternism
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...Cartman); Natella, the earnest South Asian class brain; and Latrina, the bigoted white working-class bombshell. Like many good satires, Bromwell is rooted in the idea that shallowness and venality transcend color and creed. The faculty ranges from an assortment of Anglo ignoramuses to Iqbal, the greedy, sleazy Middle Eastern headmaster. And when the immigrant students discuss their favorite foods and cultural activities for a diversity-day assembly, they all choose KFC and text messaging. Bromwell is a rude cannonball splash into the 21st century melting...
...We’ve been working on our fourth five hundred for a while, and it’s something we are going to have to work on more.” Although back-to-back defeats are disheartening, all that matters for Radcliffe is going to Eastern Sprints—and winning it. “There are things we could have done better,” Gavel said. “But we’ll see them at Eastern Sprints and it will be a different story.” That said, momentum going into this race...
...third straight year, in what has become my own rite of spring, I eagerly eschewed tropical lures to make the five-hour trek from Albany down to eastern Long Island to spend a couple of days holed up in a friend’s basement bunker. Armed with various forecasting publications, reams of statistics and an unhealthy knowledge of the positional depth charts of all 16 National League franchises, we set about carefully assigning dollar values to every player in the N.L. based upon our projections of their 2006 performance. The goal was to develop an approximate plan of action?...
...often a concerted push at the midway point, as crews prepare to enter the brutal third 500 meters on a high note—and with some distance between opposing boats. Tenths of seconds change races; baseball innings, on the other hand, can last half an hour.Even though the Eastern Sprints and IRA Championships still sit a month away, each weekend plays out as a mini-championship. Harvard has just one shot at each opponent until a rematch at Lake Quinsigamond and another in Camden, N.J. It’s a veritable NCAA Tournament every weekend, culminating...
...thought Bush was a decent guy; Imus was no firebreathing Franken. But Wednesday morning Imus kept playing a clip from Bush's speech in Iowa in which he insisted that America's golden fields of corn would rescue us from the environmental and strategic misery of dependence on Middle Eastern oil. The President sounded, Imus said, "trailer-park stupid...