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...parole, and the second is appealing to the German President for early release. The prospect has stirred calls from some that Germany give no quarter to those who "mercilessly killed wives, men and fathers with the aim of destroying our democracy," as Volker Kauder, leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union faction in the Bundestag, said recently. Others insist on a cooler approach. "Terrorism is a challenge for all of us," said Wolfgang Kraushaar, a political scientist at Hamburg's Institute for Social Research and co-author and editor of a 2006 history of the RAF. "But this...
...terrorists now being considered for release were key, hard-core figures of the "second generation" of the RAF, those who succeeded the founding cadre around Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, a former journalism student, was appointed leader of the group in 1977; Christian Klar, 54, once deemed a "moralist" by his high school teacher, was among the last to insist that the group remain operative before it formally disbanded in 1998. In July 1977 - 14 months after Meinhof hanged herself in prison and three months after Baader and two other confederates were convicted of murder...
...Atta brought boredom to us too. It's not just airport queues, with some humorless airport official frisking your 6-year-old daughter. It's the confrontation with the dependent mind. There's no argument possible. We share no points of discourse. It's like being with any fanatical Christian, for instance. The higher faculties just close down, because there's nothing for them to do. So there's that paradox: when you get terror, you also get this completely daunting lack of response. You can't have an argument with...
...have learned from this recent media frenzy is that the two are inseparable, that America 47 years later is no different than Kennedy’s America: Shrouded in hollow patriotic discourse, it is an America that is skeptical of any leader who is not rooted in (Protestant) Christian mores. It is the same America that markets non-Middle Eastern oil as “terror-free,” and one that lauds multiculturalism while spreading fears of blood-sucking Muslims that might live among us—or worse, might attempt to lead...
...competitive nature of recent elections as points of pride. Still, he appeared ready to let go. “Hopefully I’ll just be able to sit in the back and let Petersen do his thing,” he said. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...