Word: easternism
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...pray for mercy and healing for him,” said Taha Abdul-Basser ’96, a graduate student in Near Eastern languages and civilizations (NELC) who is the Islamic Society representative at Harvard’s United Ministry...
...Grumet-Morris is not just the average student-athlete. While all Harvard athletes must deal with the college’s significant workload, Grumet-Morris has an increased burden. Not only is he writing a senior thesis, he is a dual concentrator in Government and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...
...year drought. With a little help from NATO friends, Washington must also extend the reach of the military civil-reconstruction teams into the mountainous provinces where they can disarm the warlords and build roads, schools and clinics. Armor-plated aid is needed to thrust into the southern and eastern regions where Taliban rebels find it easy to recruit Pashtun tribesmen who have received little relief from international agencies. Western diplomats in Kabul say that, at most, the Taliban, along with their allies al-Qaeda and renegade commander Gulbuddin Hek-matyar, are capable of harassing coalition and Afghan forces...
With the metaphorical prowess of a bio concentrator in a creative writing course, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby channeled his Eastern spirits at the 2004 Harvard College Fund Assembly: “Confucius asked, ‘How does one govern a family?’—or, by extension, a university? And his answer was this, ‘You govern a family’—or a university—‘as if you would cook a small fish; that is, very gently indeed.’ Here, I fear...
John Kerry had many smart and educated people working for him; but these people, like much of Blue America and those of us at Harvard, know more about Eastern religions and the political parties of Germany than they do about mega churches and Dale Earndhart. Bush was able to win despite the weak economy and the situation in Iraq because he knew that in the end it wasn’t celebrities or Europeans that mattered in presidential elections; it’s the guys who drive pick-up trucks, have WWJD tattooed on their biceps and listen to Toby...