Word: 54th
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Purposely held the Sunday before the 54th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the first major pogrom in Nazi Germany, the demonstration thus inadvertently showcased the intolerance it was meant to decry. Kohl dismissed last week's disrupters as "rabble" and promised not to let Germany's course be influenced by "terror of the streets," of whatever stripe. But the subversion sent precisely the message that authorities were trying to counter: that political extremists are getting out of control in Europe's largest country. (See related story on page...
DATES OF HIGH SIGNIFICANCE fill Germany's autumn calendar, none more freighted than Nov. 9. The day marked the third anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 54th commemoration of Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, when Nazi street gangs left the nation's synagogues and Jewish businesses in flames and nearly 100 dead. The remembrances of these moments of national euphoria and historic shame mix uneasily -- never more so than this year, when the echoes of that distant event drowned out those from the recent past...
...enough of trail tours? The BlackHeritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th RegimentMemorial in Boston Common. This monument honorsthe first regiment of Black volunteers from thenorth to fight in the Civil War, as well as theircolonel, Harvard College graduate Robert GouldShaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood'sversion of the tale, Glory...
...Cambridge City Council unanimously elects Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 as its 54th mayor. Reeves is the first Black mayor in Cambridge since the city's chartering in 1846. The Council also elects Councillor Edward N. Cyr vice mayor...
Likening himself to John Paul Jones by saying that he has "just begun to fight," Brown declared that yesterday's primary was just the beginning of his race for the Democratic nomination. The crowd ate it up, carrying out a poster wishing the bachelor candidate a happy 54th birthday...