Word: easternism
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...wants to give Turkey $15 billion in exchange for access to military bases to use in a war against Iraq. This amount is roughly equal to $265 per American family, but, apparently, we are glad to spend it because it will help ensure millions of barrels of cheap Middle Eastern oil. In great contrast, the American government spends only $10 billion, or about $50 per family, on developmental aid for poor countries that aren’t lucky enough to sit on gallons of crude...
...Crimson (8-1) reigned as masters of the Eastern waters throughout the past decade, capturing six consecutive titles and nine of the previous 10 prior to last year’s defeat...
...principal aggressors, Ansar al Islam. Western and local intelligence services have suggested variously that Ansar is backed by al-Qaeda, Tehran and Baghdad. Whatever the identity of its sponsors, Ansar has proved to be a major headache for the local authorities - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which runs the eastern section of the Kurdish region protected by the Anglo-American "no-fly" zone. For the past year, Ansar fighters have periodically attacked and overrun PUK positions, slaughtering everyone they find and videotaping the carnage for distribution as propaganda - the tapes have depicted prisoners being decapitated or burned alive...
...wood-framed building, built by Irish immigrants around the turn of the century, also houses Skewers, a Middle-Eastern restaurant...
...then came the desserts. Instead of the sticky-sweet leaden pastry that many Middle Eastern joints try to pass off as baklava, the balawa bil ishta is light, flaky and subtly sweetened with crushed nuts and honey. The sinfully rich shoukolatat habibti, flavored with honey and cinnamon, hovers somewhere between a dark-chocolate truffle and a mousse...