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...commute across town for work every day, I protectively clutch my latest book as the bus rattles me back and forth. Still, an almost strange and funny sense of purposefulness persists, even if I’m only one page further by the time I arrive. I am beginning to master a tiny piece of knowledge, beginning to become an expert on an obscure little piece of academia, and the freedom of summer has paradoxically given me the drive and self-control to move forward...
...reasons: it has become the subject of intense diplomatic exchanges between Germany and the U.S., and it has highlighted some peculiar German government business practices. The litigation began within months of the reunification of Germany, when Hertie and the Jewish Claims Conference filed competing claims for a clutch of Wertheim properties. From the beginning, Hertie was at a disadvantage because Wertheim property was confiscated by the Soviet authorities immediately after World War II. According to the terms of Germany's reunification treaty, such property was not required to be returned to its former owner. In 2001, a Berlin court handed...
...passed these neighborhoods for years without noticing the smattering of Victorian houses. One block of row homes looks much like the next. Here in Tacony, however, the details matter because this neighborhood is trying to reclaim its “historic” past-trying to clutch onto its former industrial grandeur. And this legacy remains at the center of Lou’s and others’ plans to fix Tacony...
...First, Bush came upon a clutch of elderly women dressed in brightly colored traditional dress from the 19th century. Influenced by German colonialists,they wore what looked like modified ball gowns. Rather than the brilliant colors of other African nations, these women expressed themselves through the clash of bold checks and even more striking patterns. Dresses banged against shawls, which ricocheted off their headdresses, synched tightly in a "T" of fabric perpendicular to their faces and resting more than a foot in length on their foreheads...
...hours A clutch of 100 to 300 eggs is laid to form a tiny raft...