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...Harvard hopes to copy as it moves into the Ivy League season.Harvard’s No. 1 doubles duo of senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov (which went 3-0 on the road trip) showed why they are All-Americans, beating the 23rd-ranked duo of Omar Altmann and Andre Begemann by a score of 8-5.The outcome was not as positive for the Crimson’s other two doubles pairs, both of which lost, giving Pepperdine the doubles point.In singles, the only victories came at No. 4 and 5, from Nguyen and freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien.HARVARD...
...property of a California woman who had sued Austria for ownership, and four other heirs. The paintings had been confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 from Bloch-Bauer's wealthy, art-collecting Jewish family and then handed over to the Austrian government after the war. For years, Maria Altmann, 89, the niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer, has sought to reclaim them. In her will, Bloch-Bauer, who died in 1925, left the pictures to her husband but asked that they eventually be given to the museum. When Altmann first asserted her claim for restitution in 1998, Viennese officials argued that...
...became not peacekeepers or peacemakers or even trip wires, but unwilling accomplices to Serbian aggression. One of the main reasons France and Britain argued against Western air strikes was fear that their lightly armed U.N. contingents would suffer retaliation. "The blue- helmet forces were a terrible mistake," says Lothar Altmann, an analyst on Central European affairs at Munich's Sud-Ost Institute. "They were sent there as an alternative to taking military action, but once there, they became hostages whose presence made military action impossible." For that reason, he says, "the West must make it clear that the forces...
...optimists believe economic progress will inevitably provoke political progress. "If economic reform works," says Franz-Lothar Altmann, deputy director of the Sudost Institut in Munich, "it will legitimize political change." The eventual goal is a gradual Finlandization in which certain bloc countries move toward Western-style market economies and adopt the political democratization that goes with them, reducing the adversarial nature of the East-West relationship...
...overly politicized world has shown for too long toward escaped SS killers. A victory too over the governments that helped Barbie. It was the Klarsfelds who picked up his trail -- he had disappeared for almost 40 years into the identity of a prosperous and peaceful businessman named Klaus Altmann living in Bolivia. They were the ones who managed to persuade Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government to act, to induce the Bolivian government to expel "Altmann" so that he could be returned to the country of his crimes...