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...they gathered that number from the Boston community as well as the Harvard campus and brought them together within the confines of a dining hall to serenade students while they studied. This season’s Lowell House Opera (LHO) production of Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” can boast all that, but it is in some ways paradoxical. Despite assembling an immense group of participants, most of whom are not even Harvard students, LHO has maintained its close relationship with Lowell House that dates from the Opera’s founding, practicing and performing...
...store, that's an apt association. But Kaplicky, a soft-spoken man with a very sober disposition, likes to cite another, very unsober inspiration, a Paco Rabanne "chain-link" dress from the 1960s. Disco fashion as the point of departure for a sizable building? Take that, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe...
...Historians of the RAF say that by the time Klar and Mohnhaupt assumed their prominent roles in the group, the founders' ideals had become secondary to all-out war on the state. "Once [Klar] started shooting," recalled one acquaintance recently to the weekly Der Spiegel, "he couldn't stop until the magazine was empty." For a generation of Germans who survived World War II, the violence of those years awakened old traumas. "The RAF is history, thank God," says Butz Peters, a Berlin lawyer who has written several books on the group. "But the emotions associated with it - the powerlessness...
...Family members of the RAF's 34 victims, including Schleyer's widow, have joined conservative politicians in urging the President to reject Klar's application. Some want Mohnhaupt kept in jail, too. Markus Söder, general secretary of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats, said that releasing the prisoners would be a "slap in the face" for the victims and their relatives. A recent poll conducted by the Bonn-based firm Omniquest found 65% of Germans against Klar being granted early parole; the proportion rose to 73% among Germans aged...
...even be a historic imperative. Germany has so far been spared a direct attack by the new generation of Islamic terrorists, but it cannot avoid the universal struggle to balance civil liberties with security. Allegations surfaced recently, for instance, that the former Social Democratic government of Gerhard Schröder deliberately left German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay despite the absence of evidence against him. Current Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was Schröder's chief of staff at the time, says he acted appropriately with the knowledge available...