It took two years of talk to set up a bus service between the main bit of East Timor and its exclave of Oecussi.
London, by contrast, is planning a 500-acre Olympic park, complete with athletes' village, indoor arenas and swimming pool, in the lower Lea Valley, an unloved bit of east London.
Singapore, for instance, is a bit of the East that is rich enough to be in the first world but does not want to be part of the West.
Tensions in the Middle East are ratcheting a bit higher following fresh violence in Lebanon.
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If you are feeling a bit trippy afterward, a few blocks east is the Actor's Gang ( www.theactorsgang.com), a theatre ensemble run by actor Tim Robbins.
It is a bit different in London and the South East of England where there is a concentration of some older people who are actually doing rather better than the country as a whole.
The Newcastle result was a bit of an oddity in the north-east.
East's talk is a bit long on theory and short on practice as of today -- a Samsung Chromebook isn't going to make Gordon Moore have second thoughts -- but it's food for thought in an era where ARM is growing fast, and even Microsoft isn't convinced that speed rules everything.
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For others, it means decamping to The Carlyle Hotel or East Hampton, where things seem a bit more posh, if not more practical.
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East of Commercial Drive, things are a bit edgier, as is south of Main Street (SoMa), but both are filled with alterna-boutiques, galleries and restaurants.
Onthophagus taurus lives naturally in southern Europe and the Middle East, but it has booted about a bit and is now found in many other places too.
This was the first of UConn's championships when the Huskies didn't win a regular season or Big East tournament championship, making it a little bit sweeter for seniors Faris, Caroline Doty and Heather Buck.
They certainly apply in spades in Okinawa, the lynchpin of America's forward presence in East Asia and home to training areas every bit as essential to the readiness of U.S. forces in the Pacific as Vieques is to their Atlantic-based counterparts.
The Dakotas, frozen thick for weeks, sent an ice wind east for the occasion, but it thawed a bit by Monday.
In Part III of our assessment of college basketball financials herein, we disaggregate a bit further and take a look at teams within the Big East Conference.
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White-washed mansions no higher than four floors, students from the respected Kiev-Mohyla Academy and street markets amid decrepit Soviet homes sum up the whole experience of being in Kiev: a bit eclectic, somewhat Soviet and still struggling between West and East.
"A lot of people in east Belfast had hoped we were moving along a little bit, " he said.
When I first moved into an East Village studio apartment this summer, I suffered a bit of sticker shock, so I starting thinking about ways to defray my monthly rent.
Growing up on the Upper East Side in the nineteen-seventies, I was a bit of a shut-in.
Depending upon the dirty dancing between West Virginia and the Big East Conference, Missouri may have to wait just a little bit before getting down and dirty in the SEC.
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In the East Regional final Saturday, Carter-Williams did a little bit of everything, finishing with 12 points, eight rebounds, six assists, five steals and only one turnover as Syracuse beat Marquette 55-39.
Village East (171-173 Bermondsey Street, Bermondsey) brings a little bit of Manhattan to London.
Well you're talking to the wrong person here David, I have a constituency in north east London so there's not a lot of country there except a bit of Epping Forest around the top.
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