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Number the Stars, widely read in elementary schools, tells the story of a 10-year-old Danish girl who is instrumental in rescuing her Jewish best friend, as well as several other Jewish families, from Nazi control during World War II. Michael B. Cover ’04 remembers the book as his “first personal connection with the Holocaust. It certainly brought me close, as a child, to the experiences of another child whose faith and times were so distant from...
...covered with almonds, truffles, golden raisins and all the other foods that define delicacy, the cookies are far from mundane. The laws of permutations and combinations can still apply to hamantaschen, which have two possible shells—either the common hard-cookie shell or the soft, Danish-like pastry covering—and several options for fillings, from a variety of fruit jams to poppy seed. These days, hamantaschen seem to have taken on a new motto: dream of something and the center can hold...
...peninsula's capital, Petropavlovsk, founded in 1740 by Danish explorer Vitus Bering?Xfor whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named?Xis a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
...whether its reforms meet the E.U.'s criteria for membership. Turkey will have to be patient, but it now seems on track to eventually win the prize it seeks. "There was a general meeting of the minds that the U.S. and Turkey had overplayed their hands," according to a Danish official. And European leaders couldn't help but stick it to the uppity Yanks. "We don't run to Washington telling them they ought to make Colombia the 51st state so they could curb the drug trade, even though that would be in our interest," says Elmar Brok, a German...
Raised to speak Danish, English and Somali, Smith also learned French, German and Luxembourgish. At Harvard, she was studying Italian...