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...professor of Middle Eastern studies at Brandeis, Makiya lives in a pale green Victorian house near Porter Square. His living room is decorated with embroidered wall-hangings and a table decked with candles...
...proverbial communal interest for one of a different variety, one whose locus of popularity lies in an entirely different region of the country.“Lacrosse is an up-and-coming sport here,” Fred Duboe says. “It’s nowhere near the level of the East Coast where kids grow up with lacrosse sticks in their hands. Jason grew up with a baseball bat in his hands.” Until high school, the sophomore’s athletic interests stayed consistent with those of the community—baseball, football...
...Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Professor Ruth Wisse voiced a similar sentiment in a phone interview...
...system,” Walt said. “Inside the beltway in Washington, almost everybody seemed to be in favor of it.” MEA CULPAIgnatieff’s account of the particular factors that led to his own failure of judgment comes in a single paragraph near the end of the article. A 1992 visit to the sites of the Kurdish genocide carried out on the orders of Saddam in Northern Iraq gave Ignatieff vivid, personal reasons for opposing Saddam’s regime. “The lesson I draw for the future...
...claimed Strasbourg, Saint-Etienne, Blois, Caen, Reims, Metz and Rouen from the right. Leftists were meanwhile returned to power in Lyon, Lille, Rennes, and Montpellier, taking 49.5% of the nation's popular vote versus 47.5% for the right. Sarkozy's governing conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) averted near total collapse by narrowly hanging on to Marseille, and standing firm in bastions like Nice, Orleans, Le Havre, and Bordeaux...