Word: easternism
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DIED. DEREK DAVIES, 71, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review; in Antibes. Davies took over a newsprint newsletter in 1965 and during the next 25 years turned it into an internationally respected source of political and economic commentary...
...eventful. He travels to Egypt and back and alights inCanaanite towns that may correspond topresent-day Nablus, Hebron and Jerusalem. He grows rich, distinguishing himself sometimes as a warrior king and sometimes as an arch-diplomat. At one point, three strangers appear at his tent. A model of Middle Eastern hospitality, he lays out a feast. They turn out to be divine messengers bearing word that God intends to destroy Sodom, where his nephew Lot lives. Abraham initiates an extraordinary haggling session, persuading the Lord to spare Sodom if 10 righteous people can be found. They...
...scrutiny of his nation's dogmatic clerics, moderate Iranian President Muhammad Khatami proposed a "dialogue of civilizations," with Abraham as common ground, in 1998. (The U.N.'s Kofi Annan subsequently adopted the gesture.) Observers assumed Khatami was crafting a smoke screen for political talks. But the former professor of Eastern and Western philosophy seems to regard Abraham as a mascot for his comparatively humanistic, open-minded brand of Islam...
...Olive Sourdough--freshly baked on its premises and sells loaves as well as sandwiches. Fazoli's, with restaurants in 32 states, serves pasta and Italian subs. Rubio's, based in Carlsbad, Calif., is the "home of the fish taco." At Cosi, a sandwich-and-salad chain concentrated in the Eastern states, patrons can make s'mores over little hibachis at their tables and buy cocktails in the evening...
...President Putin harbors a deep, visceral dislike of Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze. Russian leaders blame him for his key role - while serving as Gorbachev's foreign minister in the late 1980s - in the breakup of the Soviet Union, its retreat from Eastern Europe, and Georgia's move into the NATO orbit. Russians feel that control over Georgia is their birthright and also a vital component of their own security...