Word: westernness
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...Full from a monstrous and ridiculously inexpensive plate of omurice—which is, more or less, an omelet stuffed with rice—I can’t help but smile as T-Pain’s “Get Low” blasts from the Western-themed sports bar across the street from my apartment. Sitting in a sticky, hot room listening to music a few months past its prime, I might as well be at a Harvard dorm party...
...bureaucratic spelling error has brought a group of Dhangars, sporting tribal red and yellow colors, here for the fourth time. "We hope this time our voice will be heard," says Gunderao Bansode, an advocate who introduces himself as the leader of the group. They're from the western state of Maharashtra, where they accuse state officials of deliberately misspelling the name of their tribe in order to deny it entitlements due under Indian law, which reserves places in educational institutes and legislatures, as well as government jobs for certain "scheduled" castes and tribes. The Dhangar are a "scheduled tribe...
...Iran may get the most attention, but there are growing signs of progress toward a possible diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff. This week, the top foreign policy adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, declared that Iran could respond favorably to the latest deal offered by Western negotiators, which he described as acceptable "in principle." It remains unclear whether the unusual declaration by Ali Akbar Velayati, who served as Iran's foreign minister from 1981 to 1997, will translate into government policy. But in New York City on Tuesday, Iran's current foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, reinforced...
...public comments by Velayati, the Supreme Leader's foreign policy adviser, underscore a sense that the Tehran regime may be seriously debating the possibility of engaging with the Western offer. Velayati, known as a close confidant of Khamenei - the man who wields executive power in Iran - also took unmistakable aim at hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, though without mentioning him by name. He warned that "[Iranian] officials ... should avoid illogical and provocative sloganeering. A certain declaration could cause us problems; we need to be careful not to make these declarations...
...Western governments have been slow to try political negotiations, or even to enact cost-free sanctions against Mugabe. In part, this is because European and U.S. officials believe that the African Union - whose summit is under way in Egypt - should spearhead negotiations on Zimbabwe. Yet the West has so far balked at the solution which South Africa, the most important player, has in mind: a deal for Mugabe to share power with his enemies in exchange for amnesty from prosecution in an international tribunal. It was only last week that Britain stripped Mugabe of the honorary knighthood conferred...