Word: easternism
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...chance meeting in France was the beginning of a seven-year career at Newsweek. Blumenfeld started as a cultural correspondent based in Paris, and later became the Eastern European Bureau Chief. His work included two major cover stories: profiles of dictators Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania and Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia. Blumenfeld later wrote a book on his experiences, See Saw: Cultural Life in Eastern Europe...
...move was widely perceived as indicating the group’s intent to create a cohesive unit strong enough to weather an NCAA boycott upon a break of any sort with the governing body, despite the pledge of the organization’s Eastern director not to bring any pressure and to allow Ivy programs to continue to compete against member schools...
...months passed, the tension slowly dropped off as the Ivy Group failed to extricate itself from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC), strongly in favor of the NCAA’s blackout plan, by continuing to use the league’s officials and remaining within the league’s governing infrastructure...
...Eastern Sprint champion Radcliffe qualified directly for the Grand Final on Friday, winning its opening heat. Powering out to a two-length lead by the halfway point, the top-seeded Black and White easily bested runner-up Stanford by better than 14 seconds...
...creation on the Internet of the Jewish shtetls of Central and Eastern Europe has been orchestrated largely by volunteer dynamo Joyce Field of West Lafayette, Ind. After retiring in 1994, Field, a former human-resources manager for software firms, purchased a computer and helped a cousin research their family history. Separately, a newly discovered relative involved with the genealogy website JewishGen enlisted Field to arrange Yizkor-book translations for their family's use. Before she knew it, Field, at 65, had become full-time manager of the Yizkor Book Project for JewishGen. Says Field: "Whereas Hitler tried to obliterate...