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Wagener seems unable to make this distinction. He mistakes Hitler's flights of quasi-history and pseudo science for higher truth. It is a form of mental alchemy that confuses metaphor with fact. Somewhere in the Führer's murky idea of Europe's gene pool, the Volk await a new golden age. But first he must burn away the dross of Bolshevism and Jewry. The verbiage grows wild and the mind bloats. Wagener's unintended legacy is a lesson on how a haunted medieval mind could effectively debase reason in the name of reason. --By R.Z. Sheppard
...fund raiser, Ron White, partially took control of city contracting and turned the process into a naked shakedown for donations to Street's 2003 re-election campaign. White died before going to trial, but former city treasurer Cory Kemp, a member of Street's administration, and four other defendants await a jury's verdict. The scandals have turned Street into a lame duck a year early. "The city is in a kind of suspended animation as long as the trials go on," says former Philadelphia Daily News editor Zack Stalberg. --By Sean Scully/Philadelphia. With reporting by Amanda Bower/New York
...Crimson knows that its biggest tests await in May and June, when the heavyweights will look to defend their Eastern Sprints and IRA titles...
...charity came a woman, two months ago, who mysteriously whispered for him to meet her a few days later in the Tuckahoe, N. Y. railway station. Thither went Mr. Condon on the appointed day, accompanied by Al Reich, onetime pugilist. There the woman told him to go home and await a letter. When the letter came it contained an enclosure for Col. Lindbergh. Mr. Condon read the enclosure over the telephone to Col. Lindbergh who said he recognized the identifying '"token." Under the authorship of Mr. Condon there began a series of more than 30 bizarre notes in the personal...
WOULD YOU SUPPORT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA FOR CHIEF JUSTICE IF WILLIAM REHNQUIST HAS TO STEP DOWN? I'm not going to anticipate any of the specific nominations. I'm going to await the President's decisions, and whoever the nominee is, [including] if it's Scalia, we'll give him a comprehensive hearing...