Word: westernizes
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...unusual move, both sides in this case agreed to appeal the case directly to the SJC, bypassing a lower appellate court. The SJC is the ultimate authority on the meaning and application of Massachusetts law, and is the oldest appellate court in continuous existence in the Western Hemisphere...
...shunned a secure CIA computer, opting to compose 74 documents containing highly classified information, including memos to the President and Cabinet members, on an unsecure Macintosh at his home. Worse, he used the same computer for personal e-mail, receiving a note from a former Russian citizen living in Western Europe. Deutch family members also surfed the Web on it; one visited porn sites...
Reinert is--or more accurately was--the typical American small-town, small-business success story. He grew up in LaPorte, Ind., and attended Western Kentucky University before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1975. He and his wife, whom he met during his Army stint in Germany, started their wholesale bath-supplies business in 1994 out of the family garage in Summerville, S.C., a pine tree-studded bedroom community of Charleston. "We began very meagerly," says Reinert. "We didn't have one account." By knocking on doors, attending an endless parade of trade shows and selecting the right representatives, they...
...humanities (Francis James Child and Albert Lord, for example) helped to found Harvard's Folk and Myth department. Folk and Myth might not directly help a student get into a good medical school, but it fosters an appreciation of other cultures and their influence on the development of Western civilization. And it might even add something to the quest for knowledge for knowledge's sake...
...Russia views the U.S. as its primary partner on the global stage. But Albright has established a tradition of relentless optimism in her comments on meetings with leaders with whom Washington may have differences, while post-communist Russian leaders from Yeltsin on have spoken in a different voice to Western audiences than they use at home - after all, Moscow's new security doctrine, which Putin signed off on only three weeks ago, defined the U.S. not as Russia's partner, but as its primary strategic rival. Analysts have likened Putin to former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet - who conducted free...