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This academic year, however, the directors of CES have decided to harness the undergraduate potential. They have formed an undergraduate advisory board from students interested in Europe who study English, social studies, history, literature, Slavic studies, government and economics. Through the advisory board, CES hopes to inform the college about its activities and to attract more undergraduates to participate in its work...
...National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies also receives roughly $626,000 annually from the Higher Education Act, of which the majority funds Foreign Language Fellowships and the rest goes to material acquisitions and language programs. Ten percent of the budget of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and 30 percent of the Slavic language publications acquisition budget comes from these funds...
...sources,” he wrote in his subsequent eight-page report, “whereas his efforts at ‘analysis’ are very effective renditions of the Stalinist leadership’s self-understanding of their murderous and progressive project to defeat the backwardness of Slavic, Asiatic peasant Russia...
...conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively in his swivel chair, his bespectacled eyes crinkling into...
...migrating Poles, Slovaks and Lithuanians say they feel welcome. But unlike the Italians, Spaniards and Greeks who arrived a generation ago, they don't find many places that their stomachs can call home. The city has only a dozen Eastern European restaurants. The most prominent: Le Grand Mayeur, a Slavic restaurant with terrific borscht and blini; and Le Jardin de Budapest and Hungaria, both offering Hungarian specialties like stuffed cabbage and Hungarian sauerkraut. For Slovaks, Poles, Estonians and Slovenians, though, the only way to get home cooking is to cook it at home. Luckily, shops like Polskie Delikatesy...