Word: europeanizer
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...prevail over democracy; the prohibition had served the commendable purpose of keeping a pattern of patriarchal exclusion out of educational institutions. The battle over the ban, still ongoing, is testament to Turkey’s schizoid situation between the fundamentalist tide roaring to its south and the atheistic, successful European Union it desperately hopes to join...
...This is not to imply that the European year has been a serene one, by any means. December saw former Russian president and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lead his United Russia party to resounding victory, strong-arming a putative republic of his own—manipulating the media and muzzling opposition parties. A man whose heart our own president once professed to “know,” Putin’s political ambition seems to know no inward bounds—or external constraint. Yet the Russian premier’s name hardly appears among the White...
...Harvard, Houghton lived in Lowell House and concentrated in history. He developed a love for European history, and also took a handful of art history courses—a prelude to his future work as chairman of the Metropolitan Museum...
...When he finished business school, Houghton joined Corning, Inc. as the European area manager. Living in Zurich and Brussels in the mid-1960s, Houghton experienced business through an international lens, something that would serve the company well when it sought to internationalize its outreach...
...Walesa’s political and historic importance as a Harvard Commencement speaker was compared by some to that of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall in 1947. That year, Marshall famously unveiled the European Recovery Program—the Marshall Plan—to the graduating class...