Word: westernizes
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...second varsity eight race Radcliffe crushed MIT by 37 seconds, while in the novice four event, Radcliffe placed second to the Boston College heavyweights. Columbia’s heavyweight four came in third. On Sunday, the Radcliffe lightweights took the opportunity to scrimmage against visiting lightweight crews from Western Ontario and Queens in Toronto. In remarkable fashion, the first eight again went on to win every race while the second varsity pulled off solid performances against the two Canadian crews. “I think the racing went really well,” Kharrazi said. “Again, [we?...
...Taliban also know how to take advantage of Western media outlets. For instance, on Aug. 18, the Taliban ambushed a French patrol about 30 miles from the Afghan capital, an attack that left 10 soldiers dead. Several weeks later, militants involved in the attack appeared in a glossy, eight-page magazine spread in Paris-Match, a leading French newsweekly, flaunting the weapons, uniforms and personal effects of the dead soldiers. Back in France, support for the war dropped to a new low. Defense Minister Herve Morin noted that the Taliban "understood that public opinion is probably the Achilles' heel...
...Pentagon has reportedly launched a broad "psychological operations" campaign in Afghanistan and Pakistan to take down insurgent-run web sites and the jam radio stations. The Afghan government, for its part, has opened a new $1.2 million media center with international support. Staffed by a team of Western-trained spin doctors, the facility includes a high-tech media monitoring wing and an outreach department tasked with building better working relations with journalists...
...latest such research shows that daily meditation can improve mental and physical health, but at Harvard the Dalai Lama wasn't convinced by some of the comically deferential - and facile - extrapolations made from there. When one Harvard psychologist suggested that Western cultures defy the biological imperative to connect with others an make it more challenging to be compassionate, the Dalai Lama paused for 20 seconds before answering. "Firstly," he said, "some people make a distinction between West and East. And there are some lifestyle differences ... but in the mental area, I don't think there are differences ... At the mental...
...ever doubted his faith, the Dalai Lama replied with a quick “No,” eliciting laughter from the audience. Following the talk, the Dalai Lama proceeded outside for a tree-planting ceremony, where he planted a special hybrid birch tree, created from Eastern and Western birch tree strains by Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. University President Drew G. Faust also presented him with a commemorative picture to honor his visit. “It’s interesting to see him in a Western setting, and not his native setting,” said Neethi...