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...world wars, new nations took shape. The state of Israel, to be sure, was created on someone else's land (whose is a matter of debate), but it was hardly alone in that. Today's Polish towns of Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz, for example, went by their German names of Breslau and Bromberg not long ago. Israel's case differs from that of other new nations mainly because many have never reconciled themselves to its existence...
...waters around the Horn of Africa, searching for suspected terrorists who may be moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. But with its attention focused on stopping terrorists, the U.S. Navy has been hesitant about pursuing pirates who roam the area. Commander Jeff Breslau, a U.S. Navy spokesman in Bahrain, says coalition forces will help ships in distress but "the focus is not on piracy or maritime crime...
...suspected terrorists who may be moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. The reduced number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden is a "side effect of Operation Enduring Freedom," says Commander Dirk Gross at the German Defense Ministry in Berlin. Commander Jeff Breslau, a U.S. Navy spokesman in Bahrain, says that coalition forces will help ships in distress but that "the focus is not on piracy or maritime crime." The increased naval presence in the Gulf of Aden may have caused the escalation in attacks further south. Leo van der Velden...
...recently had someone who wanted music for awedding by what he said was Techaikovsky," saidEsther Breslau, the store's founder and owner. Itturned out to be by a composer named Borodin...
...figure at the center of this debate was born into a Jewish family in Breslau, m,hGermany, in 1891. She studied philosophy at universities in Breslau and Gottingen. In 1922, after reading a biography of the 16th century mystic St. Teresa of Avila, Stein was baptized a Catholic. For eight years she taught at a convent school at Speyer, where she was known as an ascetic who rose early, wore patched linen clothes and knelt through three Masses a day. In 1934, after the Nazis banned Jews from academic posts, Edith Stein entered the Carmelite convent in Cologne...