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...what? On the belief that one could reach China and "Cipangu" (Japan) by sailing west. No European ship had reached the Orient by sailing east around the bottom of Africa yet, either. But Columbus was convinced that the westward passage would be shorter and easier. The enterprise of the Indies had nothing to do with discovering America, or even with any suspicion that America existed. Columbus was looking for China and Japan, and long after reaching the Caribbean he remained convinced, against any and all evidence, that he had done...
...Tehran government, which originally organized and subsidized Lebanon's Hizballah, had already been leaning westward, however grudgingly. President Hashemi Rafsanjani wants increased trade, especially from Europe, to help rebuild an economy destroyed by eight years of war with Iraq. By turning away from radicals abroad, he can also undercut his extremist domestic rival, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, Hizballah's godfather...
Welcome home, as the quirky, wistful wanderers who call themselves the Rainbow People say to each other every few minutes for reassurance. Where's home? This time it's in the high meadows in the Green Mountain National Forest, a couple of miles westward and upward from Granville, Vt. Up, down and around for half a mile or more in all directions, there are perhaps 14,000 Rainbows. For the 20th July in a row, mostly to the displeasure of local and state authorities, the Rainbows have invited themselves to a different national forest, there peaceably to assemble. And peaceably...
...have a history of treasuring our sameness, but we should also respect our diversity. Our histories should allow all students and teachers to feel like first-class citizens. A U.S. history that only stresses a westward movement across the continent would marginalize or exclude Native Americans. It would make African Americans ask, 'Who booked my passage?' It would make Hispanics say, 'We stood still and the border moved to the other side of us.' And it would make Asian Americans wonder, 'What about eastward movement rather than westward movement...
...about actually moving the government and its ministries from the somnolent little town on the Rhine -- whose only other major industry is a candy factory -- to the metropolis 375 miles farther east. In last week's deciding debate in the Bundestag, much of the discussion was about symbolism: Westward-facing Bonn vs. Berlin's periods of imperialism and Nazism. In the end, the issue turned on the promise to former East Germans that the capital would change. Berlin won the close vote...