Word: easternism
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...truth of war: Germans suffered too. They didn't just lose tens of thousands of young men in battles far from home. British and American air forces bombed their cities into landscapes from hell, while in the winter of 1944-45--when the Red Army swept through Eastern Europe--millions of refugees were forced to flee west as the doomed Wehrmacht fought with an almost demented bravery to defend them. It is as an act of recovering German suffering that Crabwalk, the new novel by Gunter Grass, is worth reading. "We have a right to mourn our dead," Grass said...
...course, the reverse was true to an even greater extent: our prolonged contact with the quiet harmony that flourished among a crew whose origins span most of the Eastern Hemisphere, who come from most of the major religions and speak a dozen languages taught us more than I imagine we returned, in the form of tales of city life and barbecue recipes. But perhaps that's the point...
...flying blind on this." WALTER P. LANG, former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency specialist in Middle Eastern affairs, on the rebuilding process in Iraq...
Junior Johanna Doyle threw a personal-best 57.44 meters in the hammer throw and finished fourth in the Eastern division...
...Harvard women’s water polo team continued its string of impressive tournament performances this season, taking sixth at the Eastern Championships held this weekend at Blodgett Pool...