Word: westernizes
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...organic milk--rice milk, soy milk, oat milk, or even almond milk. On the table-sized chopping block in the kitchen, students gather every day at 3 o'clock and start to slice fresh vegetables, tossing them into what is quite possibly the largest wok in the western world. Today, in the kitchen, Geibel realizes there has been a mistake with the milk delivery, and instead of skim milk, they were given three boxes filled with half a dozen cartons of half-n-half. But she isn't phased by the dairy crisis. "We'll just have to make everyone...
...control over the legislative and executive branches in Iran doesn't carry quite the same weight in Iran as it might in a Western democracy. "Political power in Iran is divided up among a number of different institutions and power centers," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. The country's highest political office is that of supreme spiritual leader, originally created for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the revolution of 1979 - although conservatives and reformers differ sharply on how much direct political control he should exercise. Ayatollah Khameini leads the country's conservative faction, whose control of the Council of Guardians...
...Iran's revolution financed its first decade through oil revenues, but collapsing crude prices combined with massive unemployment among a burgeoning youth population have made kick-starting the economy - with a large dose of Western investment - a critical priority, a fact that has moved even such stalwarts of the revolution as former president Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani into the pro-Khatami coalition. That, of course, is a mixed blessing. "While Rafsanjani's influence could be a major factor in preventing a dangerous backlash by hard-liners after the election," says MacLeod, "he'd be likely to slow down the pace...
...Fellows of Harvard University, as the seven members of the Corporation are known, are a veritable collection of superlatives. They are the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere at the oldest college in the country. They are the most powerful people at the most powerful University--with the most money of any educational institution in the world...
...However the case unravels, says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier, the latest news from New York has set the Russian financial circles on edge - and bracing for the next major revelation. "There's a great political will among Western law enforcement agencies to nab people higher up," says Meier. "Particularly someone higher up on the Russian side." Moscow agencies may or may not join in the hunt, adds Meier. "It remains to be seen whether Russians share the West's urge to investigate this case...