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...educational qualifications. In 1998, only 14% of Turkish secondary school students qualified for university admission, compared to more than 30% of their German counterparts. "They come to school with incredible linguistic deficits," says Friedrich Maroner, the principal of Marxloh Comprehensive, where 65% of the 600 pupils are of Turkish descent. "It's impossible for us to ever work off those deficits with the staff resources we have...
...willing to sing. In Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, potential informers were terrorized into silence by some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-President behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle and as far as Bosnia and Croatia...
Given the merits of the production’s highest points of ingenuity and creativity, it comes as a disappointment that the show’s culminating achievement—the oft-cited descent of a crepe paper ceiling that swallows the audience into a psychadellic human collage—rests solely (and literally) in the hands of the audience. The performers demonstrate that they are capable of carrying the experience on their own performative merits, so we must wonder why they do not even attempt to do so in the equivalent of their 11 o’clock number...
...willing to sing. In Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, potential informers were terrorized into silence by some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-president behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle and as far as Bosnia and Croatia...
McWhorter intertwines these dramatic events with an unsettling account of her father's descent into racial vigilantism. For decades, she writes, he boasted about his Klan affiliations and the unaccounted-for nights he spent "at one of his civil rights meetings." But when she finally confronted him, he admitted that he had not been deeply involved with the Klan because "I would have had to kill people." Writes McWhorter: "I couldn't quite grasp the grandiosity that would make someone falsely claim intimate knowledge of the most horrible crime of his time." Neither can we. Like McWhorter, the best...