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Thank you for TIME editor Karsten Prager's account of his family's journey to freedom in the last days of the war [MEMOIRS, May 15]. Few remember that the Third Reich spread a blanket of suffering over everyone -- victors as well as vanquished. Like Prager's family, mine fled westward from advancing Russian troops. When my mother escaped with her four underage children, there were only cattle cars available on the last train. Like Prager, I spent time in refugee camps. With a Polish father, a German mother and a grandfather named Abram, "Germans" such as us were about...
...bonhomie in the room failed to reflect the heated conflict the investigation's findings had ignited among the commission's staff. The investigators considered recommending everything from blanket exoneration to a formal accusation of "lack of candor." They encountered less than complete disclosure, says an FCC official, but failed to find evidence of deliberate deception...
...begins in Qunu, the Xhosa village where Mandela grew up and where he has been vacationing for the past week. Fog and rain blanket the Transkei hills, so the President must forgo his usual daily morning walk. At 5 a.m. he heads for the airport, where his jet waits to fly him 400 miles north to Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital...
Some 10 bands are also scheduled to appear on two stages. The main stage features G-Love and Special Sauce, Spatula, Swedish Cookie, Fuzzy Navel and Daily Planet. Its smaller counterpart will host several other Harvard bands, including Mezzaluna, Blanket Envy, Steamship of Beef, Ground Zero and Jaws of Clay...
Proctor said she posed in an open sweater and abra, with a blanket draped over her legs against abackdrop of a college dormroom laden withtextbooks...