Word: easternism
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...back to the wall, Ahmedinajad resorted to the tactic favored by cornered politicians everywhere: distract attention from yourself by pointing to a bogeyman. In Iran (and other Middle Eastern countries) the most convenient Bad Guys are (a) Israel and (b) the West. Hence Ahmedinajad's much-publicized remarks about wanting to wipe Israel off the map. But by all accounts that was not enough to draw off his domestic rivals...
...British commanders (and the British media) routinely cite their country's colonial history as the basis of a superior understanding of Middle Eastern politics and people. Because the British once ruled Iraq, they must be better than the Americans at dealing with Iraqis today...
...Undergraduate Scholarships. Harvard’s director of federal relations, Suzanne Day, wrote in an e-mail that the NSEP scholarship preferences comprise “the likeliest model [the Secretary] may follow,”Of the foreign languages offering degrees at the College, some Romance and Near Eastern languages and all Germanic languages are not covered by the NSEP program.Students studying Romance languages said they were surprised to see French and Spanish missing from the list, which includes Portuguese and Romanian.“I don’t know whether [the reason for] the lack of funding...
...next editor of the anthology. The transition of the editorship from a Harvard graduate to a Harvard professor was not purposeful, Abrams said. “Other things being equal, we would have preferred to look west, just to change the notion that it’s an eastern-oriented or even a Harvard-centered anthology,” he said. But Greenblatt’s qualifications were unsurpassed, Abrams said. “I don’t know anybody better than him in the field of literature in his generation,” Abrams said. Professor of English...
...focus on more viable and essential regions of the city. Of course, ignoring the cries of the several lobbyist groups that have balked at such a ban will not be easy. Those areas that would likely be barred from resettlement would comprise New Orleans’ hardest-hit eastern half—namely New Orleans East, the Lower Ninth Ward, and Lakeview. Citing the injustice in barring the resettlement of this predominantly black eastern half, many groups have argued for the need of these residents to return to their native neighborhoods in order to rebuild the social and cultural foundations...