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...known Professor Ted Parson of the Kennedy School of Government as a blindingly intelligent public policy scholar with an interest in ozone negotiations, but at dinner--when we sat with two of my blockmates and their professors--he mesmerized the table with discussion about everything from game theory to Austrian royalty to Richard Rhodes' latest book...
...post-Napoleonic France of 1832, the movie centers on the adventures of Angelo (Olivier Martinez), a young Italian army officer exiled from his country as a rebel against the Austrian empire. No safety is to be found in France, however, as he is first glimpsed fleeing from secret agents of the Austrian government. He rides posthaste through the south of France, which is being ravaged by an epidemic of cholera, and eventually meets up with some of his comrades and fellow exiles. On the way, he takes refuge in the house of a young French woman (Juliette Binoche), who, with...
...hotel bombs in Aden killed two Austrian tourists and narrowly missed 100 U.S. servicemen en route to Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. The U.S. State Department says bin Laden was implicated by suspects as the bankroller behind both bombings...
...this type of regression contains one immense surprise: the resulting child-adult turns out to be not the radiant and innocent child Jean-Jacques Rousseau imagined but rather a hard, half-blind, furiously offended, rancorous, enraged infant capable of any atrocity. As the late Austrian child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein noted, the thwarted infant feels a desire to tear up everything, wipe out both parents...
...commune with the skeletons of fallen German soldiers. Clerks and metal workers by day turn into street brawlers and arsonists at night. For nonviolent recreation some play a kind of anti-Semitic Can You Top This: a gaunt Nazi nostalgist goes by the nickname "Auschwitz"; a rich Austrian patron of the movement paints a Star of David inside his toilet bowl; a distributor of Holocaust-denial material jocularly offers his customers a computer game called Concentration Camp Manager...