Word: easternism
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...puts Harvard at the top of the EARC and U.S. Rowing polls going into the Eastern Sprints. The Crimson has captured the Sprints title the last two years, with both victories followed by open-water wins at the IRA national championships...
...lightweights’ second dual race of the season, when Harvard forfeited an early lead to Georgetown and never made it up, falling to the Hoyas by just over one second. But in the last dual race of the season, the Crimson showed the resilience necessary for the upcoming Eastern Sprint and IRA regattas...
...loss of well over 20 million lives, largely because Stalin's purges had destroyed the Red Army's officer class before the war started. Until June 1941, Germany and Soviet Russia were allies, and Moscow had seized the Baltic states as part of a carve-up of Eastern Europe provided for by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Even the massive German invasion seemed, paradoxically, to promise an end to Stalin's dictatorship. Russians began to hope that victory over Hitler would bring a political thaw at home after the brutality of the 1930s. They were quickly disillusioned. With victory, repression returned...
Good times abound for Stephens and the No. 1 Harvard lightweight crew, which enters as the solid favorite in this weekend’s race against Princeton and Yale. The Crimson will likely take its No. 1 ranking into the Eastern Sprints and IRA national championships, where it has won in every odd-numbered year since...
...result is that oil-rich states develop a powerful, well-armed elite that can do whatever they please—which in the case of Burma, Sudan, and other states is generally an unpleasant mix of oppression, genocide, or warfare. Other states, like Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, have successfully diverted the frustration of the populace into anti-western terrorism...