Word: westernness
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Improving relations with Cuba, one of the last holdouts of old school Communism, would work towards ending the last major Communist regime in the Western Hemisphere. In fact, picking up the pieces of the Cold War has been an overriding theme in recent U.S. diplomacy. Looking at the stories in Reversing Relations, one can consider all six of the formerly hostile states discussed in the book as either direct or indirect results of the Cold War. Even the U.S.'s troubles with Iraq stem from Iran's Soviet backing during the Iran-Iraq...
Aside from Western classical music, the syllabus also includes African drumming and Jewish folk songs, which "open more than one view-point, or hear-point," Goldberg says...
According to Goldhagen, most people think the Holocaust was a central event not because Jews suffered, but because the Holocaust was perpetrated by a Western European country deemed to be at the pinnacle of civilization. This contrast challenges our notion of progress, Goldhagen said...
Rudenstine said he had been contemplating a trip to East Asia for some time, intending it as a complement to a trip through Western Europe last year...
Saddam is a secretive, Stalinesque dictator, and even Iraqis are mystified by his decisions. Western experts can only speculate, but they suspect the next act may play out in one of two ways. In the first, Butler puts the eight presidential sites under continuous watch. He has never thought they were crammed with toxins and gas, but he does not want them available as quick-switch storage depots when he gets close to the hidden weapons. Butler's experts believe those are in offices of the Iraqi intelligence services and the Special Republican Guard complexes that Saddam also declared...