Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, I have developed an entire ritual to accompany the day's climactic meal. The winter weather mandated certain adjustments, but I refused to allow nature to interfere with my happiness. I have Raynaud's Disease, a condition of bad circulation, which generally afflicts women of Northern and Western European descent. (My family hails from Germany). So, I need to guard my hands against excessive cold. It's sad that I still need to wear mittens in April...
...should not be waved for laziness or pseudoinfirmities. It should involve rigorous and extensive practice in the sport one chooses, and a study of the principles that one learns from such practice. When this occurs, Harvard will have returned to one of the most noble pedagogical devices in the Western tradition...
...four Iranian Kurd dissidents in Berlin, found that the killings were approved at the "highest state levels" in Tehran. After the verdict, Germany recalled its ambassador, ejected four Iranian diplomats and announced it was reassessing the policy of "critical dialogue" that has allowed Bonn to become Iran's principal Western trading partner...
...Western experts doubt claims by the N.C.R. that it is funded by the Iranian exile community, contending that Saddam pays for its operations. Most of the N.L.A.'s armor and other equipment, they say, was captured from Iran toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that ended in 1988. The Massouds "are simply not a viable alternative to the current regime because of their ties to Iraq," says Eisenstadt. Clawson says the People's Mujahedin's radical-left politics is also out of step. "Their day is past," he says...
...language that surrounded the vigorous lobbying and ultimate defeat of the resolution speak to a general world view that dominates China's perspective on the West and speaks frighteningly clearly to future prospects for civil freedoms in Hong Kong. Dismissing the accusations against its human rights record as Western impudence, Wu argued in a speech to many in the U.N. that the Chinese had absolutely no human rights to speak of before the Communist takeover in 1949. Somehow, that was supposed to exonerate China of its violent actions ever since. Finally, Wu stated that China had followed its own course...