Word: near-eastern
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...smartest people I know,” she said. “She works really hard.” Snider said she hopes to attend medical school after Oxford. Ultimately, she said will specialize in psychiatry and neurological research. Haddad-Fonda, who is concentrating in history and near-eastern languages and civilizations and is a resident of Pforzheimer House, said he is planning a doctorate in oriental studies at Oxford. “It’s still overwhelming at this point, just to get the opportunity to meet other people involved in the process,” Haddad-Fonda...
...Some of you think you've come to a circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. --Benjamin W. Heineman...
Harold H. Saunders, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former Assistant Secretary of State for Near-Eastern and South Asian Affairs, made the first address. He presented a somewhat anachronistic framework for solution to the Palestinian problem, which was shaped in the '70s by the Kissinger school. Generally, he said, it seems that the present government in Israel does not see the core of the conflict in the Palestinian problem, but rather in the refusal of the Arab states to recognize Israel's right to exist and to live in secure borders. The Palestinians, on their side, would...
Hanfmann said yesterday that the Sardis dig "has been called the most important archaeological excavation of this century." He said the ancient capital of Turkey was significant because it served as a link between Mediterranean and Near-Eastern cultures...
...dancers--Robert Cohan, Matt Turney, William Constanza, and chorus--turned in performances that I will long remember. Mr. Cohan, the director and choreographer, combined the forms of Near-Eastern folk, and modern, dance into scenes that left the audience breathless. The music was well suited to their dancing though it paradoxically did not give the singers enough good material to turn in convincingly dramatic performances, or even very interesting ones. The sung portions of the score were not particularly difficult, and the singers did not make too much of them. For the sake of continuity, I wish the spoken dialogue...