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...That explains why the President spends so little time in France and Spain--the blue states of Europe--and so much in Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia, countries once behind the Iron Curtain where his odes to democracy are particularly resonant. Beyond just visiting, Bush has been pushing for the eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union, which would give the map of Europe more of a red-state look...
...Daniloff says.A GENEALOGICAL JOURNEYDaniloff credits his grandmother with “infecting me with a desire to see Russia and understand the Soviet-American relationship.” And so like many regionalists before him, Daniloff, whose father was a refugee of the 1917 Russian Revolution, journeyed eastward to understand his heritage. “My father was burdened by his Russian past, and in some respects saw the world through Russian eyes,” Daniloff says. “He gave me bad advice.”During his Harvard career, Daniloff says, his father saw his son?...
...year Papunya's Honey Ant mural was casually whitewashed over, Rover Thomas experienced a series of dreams at Warmun, 1,000 km northwest in the East Kimberley's diamond country. An old woman had recently died, and in his dreams her spirit flew eastward, encountering the land and its sacred sites. Former stockman Thomas' visions were later recorded on boards and held aloft during a ceremony known as Gurrir Gurrir. These boards grew into a contemporary art movement, made famous by the late Thomas' Rothko-like swathes of ocher necklaced by sun-bursting dots (in 2001, his All That...
...Government, Jenkins ruled, did not deliberately expose civilians to radioactivity in the 1950s, as some have suggested, when test bombs were being detonated almost monthly. Nonetheless, officials were negligent. When winds were blowing eastward from the test site toward the sparsely populated stretches of Utah and northern Arizona, the Government seemed unconcerned. Radiation sensors were few and often operated improperly. And officials disregarded evidence of potential hazards. Said former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs: "The tragic thing is that all this could have been prevented...
...those measures are popular with voters, although in practice beefed-up enforcement can create as many problems as it solves. When the Clinton Administration began patrolling the California border more closely in the mid-1990s, the illegal traffic simply shifted eastward--increasing tensions in Arizona and New Mexico, where illegal immigration had largely been tolerated...