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...alumni at Hamilton College in New York that Churchill, who had been invited to speak there, had penned an essay equating U.S. foreign policy with Nazi Germany's conduct in World War II and labeling some of the people working in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," after the architect of the Holocaust. Hamilton canceled Churchill's engagement, but the furor spread. Outraged Colorado house members unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "evil and inflammatory" words. Colorado Governor Bill Owens called on Churchill to resign and urged lawmakers to consider changing tenure rules, normally the purview of the school...
...What was once a graffiti-covered iron foundry just off the Reeperbahn, the city's notorious red-light district, has been triumphantly transformed into the fashionable East Hotel, tel: (49-40) 30 99 30. Opened three months ago, this 78-room treat is the daring creation of Chicago-based architect Jordan Mozer, who says he was looking to achieve "a contrast between old and new" and "a surreal mixture of East and West." Spaces are draped in luminous floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains, decorated with handmade furnishings and wrought-iron fixtures, and illuminated by candlelight. The Asian accents (such...
...DIED. PETER MALKIN, 77, veteran Israeli Mossad agent who in 1960 grabbed Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution," from a street outside Buenos Aires, and later wrote a book about the arrest; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, Se?or" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. Agents later smuggled Eichmann to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged...
DIED. PETER MALKIN, 77, veteran Israeli Mossad agent who in 1960 captured Adolf Eichmann--the chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution"--from a street outside Buenos Aires; of complications from an infection; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, seņor" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. The agents later smuggled him to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. In a book he wrote about...
...British West Indies. At 14 he was broke and virtually an orphan--his mother was dead, his father gone. But by 22 he was an aide-de-camp to George Washington, and by 34 he was this country's first Secretary of the Treasury and the principal architect of U.S.-style capitalism. For everything in between, pick up Chernow's vast and vastly entertaining biography. --By Lev Grossman