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...Golden Age Is it really so difficult to under-stand people's anger about the record profits made by Goldman Sachs [Aug. 31]? If the author were not so dazzled by the company's performance he would understand that we are not angered by a company doing well in difficult times. The rage is triggered by the perception that some institutions, having survived the near meltdown of the system with the help of taxpayers' money, are now in a position to reap fat benefits at the expense of the man (or woman) in the street. Speculators may have a function...
...Juritza, born in 1966, was captured, age 18, during his third escape attempt. One of 72,000 East Germans incarcerated for trying to leave their country, he served 10 months, suffering physical and psychological torture, before his freedom was bought by the West German government. (The G.D.R. earned hard currency and rid itself of dissidents by literally selling thousands of political prisoners.) Yet some Ossis still think Juritza and his fellow prisoners deserved their punishment. He tells of falling into conversation with an old man on a Berlin street. When Juritza mentioned his stint in jail, the old man erupted...
...prevent illness at any age...
...pressed charges. Seven months later, in February, the man now referred as the "Australian Josef Fritzl," was arrested. In his 60s, the man is due to stand trial in November for five charges of rape, five of incest, and one of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 16. Initially, he denied the accusations, but a DNA test confirmed that all the children were his. The Victoria police have not commented on the case, citing a court-imposed suppression order. (See pictures of Josef Fritzl's house where he locked his daughter in Austria...
...Unlike the recent cases of Josef Fritzl in Austria and Phillip Garrido in California, the father allowed his daughter to live alone at one stage, but the victim had been discouraged from making friends at an early age. In an interview that appeared in the Australian, a former neighbor confirmed this attitude had stayed with the victim throughout her life, and that her father had always been a domineering force. "When I said to her, 'Do you want to go to the bingo?', [she said] 'Oh no, Dad won't let me'. I thought...