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Goldhagen said he sees such an all-inclusive concept of the citizen as a missing link in World War II German culture that allowed ordinary citizens to become "active executioners" in Hitler's regime...
...Young people can bitch and moan and complain about politics," he said. "But if you don't get involved, the senior citizen lobby will overwhelm your generation...
...Yeah, I do get sick of that question. If it's funny, it's funny. It's so integrated now. I've been living here since 1982 so I myself feel integrated here. The only thing I don't do is vote-I'm not a citizen, just a green card girl. But I don't think I'm missing that much there. [laughs] I feel like I have an international viewpoint-I'm in with that group, Toppa Gigio, Nanamus Scurry, Celine Dion, the best! I just travel around, I don't even know where I live anymore. What...
...time she retires, she says she hopes to have sent off a "Citizen's Guide to the School Committee" to be printed...
While he was researching and writing his third novel, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje was pretty much free of all expectations for the book except his own. Born in 1943 in Ceylon (which changed its name to Sri Lanka in 1972) and a longtime Canadian resident and citizen, Ondaatje enjoyed a modest following as a poet, filmmaker and educator. But when his novel appeared in 1992, all that comfortable obscurity came to an abrupt halt. The English Patient went on to win Britain's prestigious and commercially influential Booker Prize and was then turned into a 1996 Academy Award-winning...