Word: westernness
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Trained as a classicist, Morrow first went to dig up axheads in the Western Desert in 1980. Returning to her home in upstate New York for Christmas, she woke up one morning to hear that her 20-year-old brother had died in a car crash (as their sister had before him). Making her way back to the ancient world, as if in response, she soon found herself being passed over the heads of a crowd in Aswan and onto a ferry where men "reclined in circles smoking honey-soaked tobacco in water pipes," their eyes the "shades of lavender...
What Britain's handover of Hong Kong to China really symbolizes [SPECIAL REPORT, June 30] is the end of Western hypocrisy. While the freedom to choose is the foundation of Western civilization, Hong Kong was taken in a very undemocratic way from China and was held for more than 150 years. And while Hong Kong is being given to communist rule, it is being done because the people of Hong Kong, the ethnic Chinese who are the inhabitants of this tiny island, want it to happen. True, the 99-year lease of the island was set to expire...
...flock. Even Congress has gotten serious, passing legislation Thursday that would withhold $200 million in U.S. aid if the bill is signed into law. But that $200 million carrot may have precisely the opposite effect. Yeltsin endures constant carping that he is too often the marionette of cash-rich Western governments; if he rejects the bill now, even citing constitutional concerns, it will appear to Yeltsin's critics simply that he has taken a bribe. Faced with that quandary, Yeltsin gave Moscow a wide berth Friday and headed off instead to an elite holiday resort on the Volga, some...
...with You and as Jefferson Smith, patron saint of patriotic lost causes, nurser of noble grudges, in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. David O. Selznick saw Stewart as a worthy partner for Carole Lombard in the intelligent soaper Made for Each Other. Somebody at Universal made him the unlikely western hero of Destry Rides Again, opposite an amused Marlene Dietrich. These moguls may have undervalued Stewart as an appealing young actor who wouldn't upstage the female lead. But they let him put his wares before the public. The public bought, and by the end of the decade, Stewart, despite...
...tough is it? Western Pacific, a two-year-old company based in Colorado Springs, Colo., is a good example. Last year Western Pacific chalked up a $23.7 million net loss and in the process jettisoned both its management and its business plan. The company tried to avoid a head-on battle with United Airlines in its Denver hub. But Western Pacific was also missing out on the flush business market that connects there. "A lot of low-fare carriers make the mistake of trying to hide in the weeds," says Western Pacific CEO Robert Peiser, former CEO of FoxMeyer Drug...