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...first section tells the story of four European critics bound together by a fascination with the elusive German novelist Benno von Archimboldi. Shallow globetrotters with a surplus of luxury time, they combine and couple in various permutations of the three male critics and their single female colleague, endure bizarre and horrifying dreams, and plunge stoically into the breach between art and madness. Their search for a trace of the living author leads them to Santa Teresa, where a brush with the Spanish professor Oscar Amalfitano gives way to that character’s own section. Of all the protagonists throughout...
...three countries on three continents, I have still not reached the material level of my parents, but I have not had a boring life; I've never had to apply for unemployment benefits and my children are happy about their multicultural background. A bad situation creates wonderful chances. Benno ter Kuile, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS...
...When Benno Ohnesorg was shot on June 2, 1967, by a policeman in West Berlin during a demonstration against the Shah of Iran, the young German student became a martyr for a generation of left-wing activists. The killing triggered the radicalization of the mass protest movement in West Germany, which directed its anger against the police, the government and the conservative establishment. The poignant image of a woman cradling Ohnesorg's head as he lay dying on the ground became etched in Germans' minds. But now it has emerged that the police officer who pulled the trigger was actually...
...Harvard's administration suffered through its embarrassment last week, the leadership at another Ivy League school, Columbia, was in a festive mood over the elevation of Barbara Aronstein Black from professor of legal history to dean of the law school. Black, 52 and the mother of three children, succeeds Benno C. Schmidt Jr., who in December was named president of Yale. Her promotion marks a significant academic milestone; she becomes the first woman ever to head one of the nation's blue-ribbon law schools. "She's a woman for all sea-sons," proclaimed Columbia President Michael Severn, calling...
...head chef at Per Se, Keller picked Jonathan Benno, 34, who has worked with him in Yountville for two and a half years. Keller will get the kitchen in New York up and running, and then Benno will take over in May. Benno will be working with 18 other alumni from the French Laundry whom Keller has transplanted to New York. And of course Keller will be in constant video contact from Napa--"I want to create real synergy--because I am trying to create two fine dining restaurants," he says...